Meet the editors

Youssef Ben Smida obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia, in 2015. He completed a postdoc at the Materials and Crystal Chemistry Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, where he was responsible for the X-ray diffractometers. Since June 2017, he has held a permanent position as a young researcher at the National Research Center in Materials Science, Parke Technology

of Borj Cedria Tunisia. He works on energy (Na-ion batteries and fuel cells) and the environment (photocatalysis). His other areas of interest include computational methods (DFT and MD) and crystallography. Dr. Smida has co-supervised and supervised master's degree students, end-of-study engineering projects, and theses.

Riadh Marzouki is an Assistant Professor in International Cooperation between the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Sfax, Tunisia. He is also a researcher in the Laboratory of Materials and Crystallography, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia. His research activities include investigating the synthesis, crystal structure,

electrical properties, and biological activities of new crystalline materials. He is also the author and the co-author of more than sixty scientific papers, four book chapters, and four book editions.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Atef Korchef*

**Section 2**

*and Patricia Vélez Varela*

Polycrystalline Powder Synthesis Methods

*Riadh Marzouki and Mohamed Triki*

*by Endar Hidayat and Hiroyuki Harada*

Block Copolymers, and Nanocomposites *by Amit Kumar Pandey and Shinichi Sakurai*

*by Francisco Sánchez-Férez and Josefina Pons*

of Coordination Polymers

*by Mosbah Jemmali, Basma Marzougui, Youssef Ben Smida,* 

Effect of Operating Parameters and Foreign Ions on the Crystal Growth of Calcium Carbonate during Scale Formation: An Overview

Cadmium Contents in Biodegradable Films Made from Cassava

Simultaneously Recovery of Phosphorus and Potassium Using Bubble Column Reactor as Struvite-K and Implementation on Crop Growth

Recent Developments in the Crystallization of PLLA-Based Blends,

Polymorphism and Supramolecular Isomerism: The Impasse

*by Maite Rada-Mendoza, José Luis Arciniegas Herrera* 

**Preface XI**

Crystallization in the Inorganic Chemistry **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 47**

**Chapter 4 67**

Protein and Organic Compounds **81**

**Chapter 5 83**

**Chapter 6 121**
