Meet the editor

Riadh Marzouki is Assistant Professor in International Cooperation between the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences at King Khalid University (Saudi Arabia); assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Sfax (Tunisia); and researcher in the Laboratory of Materials and Crystallography of the 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 of thirty-six papers and three book chapters.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Mei Luo*

**Section 3**

Nucleation

Oxyorthosilicates Growth

*by Veronika Ivanovna Rozhdestvina*

*by Riadh Marzouki*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Synthesis Methods **7**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 25**

Nucleation and Crystal Growth **47**

**Chapter 4 49**

**Chapter 5 59**

**Chapter 6 81**

**Chapter 7 103**

*by Wan Nur Athirah Mazli, Mohd Afnan Ahmad and Shafirah Samsuri*

Introductory Chapter: Crystalline Materials and Applications

*by Youssef Ben Smida, Riadh Marzouki, Savaş Kaya, Sultan Erkan,* 

Synthesis Methods in Solid-State Chemistry

*Mohamed Faouzi Zid and Ahmed Hichem Hamzaoui*

Synthesis Methods and Crystallization of MOFs *by Yitong Han, Hong Yang and Xinwen Guo*

Laser Floating Zone: General Overview Focusing on the

Solid Phase Evolution of Nanodispersed Palladium Powders

*by Francisco Rey-García, Carmen Bao-Varela and Florinda M. Costa*

One-Pot Synthesis of Chiral Organometallic Complexes
