Ionic liquids are remarkable chemical compounds, which find applications in many areas of
modern science. Because of their highly tunable nature and exceptional properties, ionic …

Crystallisation is at the heart of various scientific disciplines, but still the understanding of the
molecular mechanisms underlying phase separation and the formation of the first solid …

Crystal nucleation is relevant across the domains of fundamental and applied sciences.
However, in many cases, its mechanism remains unclear due to a lack of temporal or spatial …

Nanoindentation is applied to the two polymorphs of aspirin to examine and differentiate
their interaction anisotropy and shear instability. Aspirin provides an excellent test system for …

Many organic molecules are emerging as having many crystalline forms, including
polymorphs and solvates, as more techniques are being used to generate and characterise …

How do crystals nucleate? According to classical nucleation theory, calcium carbonate
nucleation proceeds by addition of ions to a single cluster (top). Gebauer et al. now suggest …

Glycine, the simplest amino acid, is described as existing as hydrogen-bonded cyclic dimers
in supersaturated aqueous solutions and, as a result, crystallizing in a centrosymmetric …

A new in‐situ NMR strategy (termed CLASSIC NMR) for map** the evolution of
crystallization processes is reported, involving simultaneous measurement of both liquid …

Kinetics can play an important role in the crystallization of molecules and can give rise to
polymorphism, the tendency of molecules to form more than one crystal structure. Current …

Purpose Crystallization from solution involves nucleation and growth; growth conditions
greatly influence self-association behaviors of solute molecules in these steps, affecting …