**Meet the editor**

Professor Yitzhak Mastai was born in 1966 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He obtained his B.Sc in physical chemistry from Bar-Ilan University in 1989 and received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science with Prof. Gary Hodes on nanomaterials synthesis (1999). He then went to the Max Planck institute of colloids and interfaces for 3 years, as postdoctoral fellow to work with Prof. M. Antonietti

and Prof. H Cölfen on biomimetic chemistry and chiral polymers. In 2003 joined the staff of the chemistry department at Bar-Ilan University, where he is currently a Professor at the institute of nanotechnology at Bar-Ilan University leading the nano chirality laboratory. Prof. Mastai's earlier interests included nanomaterials synthesis and characterization. His current research is focused on the synthesis and analysis of chiral nanosurfaces, chiral self-assembled monolayers and polymeric chiral nanoparticles. Mastai has published more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters on various aspects of nanomaterials and chirality at the nanoscale.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Chiral Crystallization 1** 

Chapter 4 **Preparation of Na+**

Toshinori Okura

Chapter 6 **Crystallization Kinetics** 

Nobuyuki Tanaka

Lai-Chang Zhang

Chapter 8 **Crystallization Behavior** 

Chapter 1 **Separation of the Mixtures** 

**of Chiral Compounds by Crystallization 3**  Emese Pálovics, Ferenc Faigl and Elemér Fogassy

**Controlled by Spontaneous Crystallization 59** 

 **Superionic Conductors by Crystallization of Glass 83** 

Miray Çelikbilek, Ali Erçin Ersundu and Süheyla Aydın

**and Hole Formation of Polymer Glasses 163** 

**and Control of Amorphous Alloys 185** 

**Section 2 Crystallization of Amorphous and Glassy Materials 81** 

Chapter 2 **Crystallization on Self Assembled Monolayers 39**  Michal Ejgenberg and Yitzhak Mastai

Chapter 3 **Asymmetric Reaction Using Molecular Chirality** 

Masami Sakamoto and Takashi Mino

Chapter 5 **Crystallization Kinetics of Metallic Glasses 107** 

Arun Pratap and Ashmi T. Patel

**of Amorphous Materials 127** 

Chapter 7 **Thermodynamics of Enthalpy Relaxation** 
