**Meet the editor**

Dr. Sukarno Olavo Ferreira is Associate Professor at Physics Department of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brasil. Member of the Brazilian Physical Society, he is nowadays director of the Brazilian Crystal Growth Society. Since his PhD at the Johannes Kepler Universität-Linz, Austria, in 1995, he has actuated in growth and characterization of epitaxial hetero and nanostrutures,

based on II-VI semiconductor compounds.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Biological and Other Organic Systems 1**

Kui Chen, Li-Jun Ji and Yan-Yang Wu

**Novel Growth Methods 89**

**Crystallize Them 3**

**Phosphates 67**

Ruiz-Bustos

Hayakawa

Hidehisa Kawahara

**Hard Tissues 145** Ermanno Bonucci

Chapter 1 **Proteins and Their Ligands: Their Importance and How to**

Astrid Hoeppner, Lutz Schmitt and Sander H.J. Smits

Chapter 2 **Purification of Erythromycin by Antisolvent Crystallization or Azeotropic Evaporative Crystallization 43**

Chapter 3 **Crystal Growth of Inorganic and Biomediated Carbonates and**

Chapter 4 **Direction Controlled Growth of Organic Single Crystals by**

Chapter 5 **Characterizations of Functions of Biological Materials Having Controlling-Ability Against Ice Crystal Growth 119**

Chapter 6 **The Mineralization of Bone and Its Analogies with Other**

M. Arivanandhan, V. Natarajan, K. Sankaranarayanan and Y.

Antonio Sánchez-Navas, Agustín Martín-Algarra, Mónica Sánchez-Román, Concepción Jiménez-López, Fernando Nieto and Antonio

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Chapter 6 **The Mineralization of Bone and Its Analogies with Other Hard Tissues 145** Ermanno Bonucci


Preface

electrodeposition.

Crystal growth is the key step of a great number of very important applications. The devel‐ opment of new devices and products, from the traditional microelectronic industry to phar‐

The objective of this book is not to cover all areas of crystal growth but just present, as speci‐ fied in the title, important selected topics, as applied to organic and inorganic systems. All authors have been selected for being key researchers in their field of specialization, working

The first section is mainly devoted to biological systems and covers topics like proteins, bone and ice crystallization. The second section brings some applications to inorganic sys‐ tems and describes more general growth techniques like chemical vapor crystallization and

This book is mostly recommended for students working in the field of crystal growth and for scientists and engineers in the fields of crystalline materials, crystal engineering and the

Physics Department of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brasil

**Dr. Sukarno Olavo Ferreira**

maceutical industry and many others, depends on crystallization processes.

in important universities and research labs around the world.

industrial applications of crystallization processes.

