Contents


Preface

Considering the diversity of the crystalline structures of crystallized materials and their impact on these materials' physical properties, this book describes the synthesis methods most adopted for the preparation of crystalline phases. Many types of materials have been processed, including inorganic, organic, organometallic, and hybrid materials. Microstructure is one parameter influencing physical properties of crystals while nucleation and crystallization are others. In fact, crystal growth influences the size and morphology of crystals. Therefore, several examples of materials have been controlled by scanning or transmission electron microscopy as a function of the parameters influencing the microstructure, particularly, time,

This book is the result of several years of scientific research in crystallography and solid-state chemistry. We thank all who have contributed to this work from near

> **Riadh Marzouki** Chemistry Department, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax,

Laboratory of Materials,

Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar,

Crystal Chemistry and Applied Thermodynamics,

University of Sfax,

Tunisia

LR15ES01,

Tunisia

and far, especially Professors Mohamed Faouzi Zid and Ahmed Driss.

temperature, reaction medium, and so on.
