Here’s an exercise for you: type “crystals” into your favorite search engine and see what you get. If you’re anything like us, you’ll get a bunch of pseudoscientific posts about the healing power of ...

Ostwald's 1897 paper on crystal nucleation 1 contains an interesting remark in the introduction. After explaining that supercooled liquids can be made to crystallize by the introduction of a small ...

I bet that you didn’t know that the American Crystallographic Association was based in Buffalo. I didn’t until I saw that University at Buffalo researcher Jason Benedict was promoting the United ...

Seed crystals are tiny single crystals made to dissolve in a solution (or melt) from which larger crystals are drawn either by precipitation, centrifuging or drawing up from a melt. Seed crystals are ...

In addition to its fundamental importance 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, crystallization is relevant for many applications. They range from material science, including metals 10, small molecules 11, colloids 12 ...