Additives and Crystallization Processes: From Fundamentals to Applications

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 468 pages
• Published by: Wiley December 4, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470061537
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470061534
• Book Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Weighs: 9.9 ounces

Product Description
Crystal growth technology involves processes for the production of crystals essential for microelectronics, communication technologies, lasers and energy producing and energy saving technology. A deliberately added impurity is called an additive and in different industries these affect the process of crystal growth. Thus, understanding of interactions between additives and the crystallizing phases is important in different processes found in the lab, nature and in various industries.

This book presents a generalized description of the mechanisms of action of additives during nucleation, growth and aggregation of crystals during crystallization and has received endorsement from the President of the International Organization for Crystal Growth. It is the first text devoted to the role of additives in different crystallization processes encountered in the lab, nature and in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, food and biofuels.

A unique highlight of the book are chapters on the effect of additives on crystal growth processes, since the phenomena discussed is an issue of debate between researchers

About The Author


Professor Keshra Sangwal is Senior Professor of Physics (since 1997) and Head of the Department of Applied Physics and Lublin University of Technology, Poland. He is author or co-author of over 160 publications in the field of elementary processes of growth and dissolution, real structure of crystals, structure and properties of electrolyte solutions, and mechanical properties of crystalline solids, including three books (see Author’s Previous Works).

He has served as Guest Editor of several issues of Crystal Research and Technology and is a member of the advisory boards of ‘Crystal Research and Technology’ (Wiley-VCH),’ Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials’, and the ‘Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Science’. He is a member of the Polish Physical Society, Polish Society of Crystal Growth and the Crystallography Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a co-founder of the Polish Society of Crystal Growth and served as its President from 1998 – 2001.  He has worked as a visiting scientists in the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona, a UNDP specialist in Anna University (India), and a visiting professor at the University of Barcelona, and Hiroshima University.