TY - CHAP AU - Silvia Tavazzi AU - Leonardo Silvestri AU - Peter Spearman ED - Elena Borisenko Y1 - 2012-01-20 PY - 2012 T1 - Optical Properties of Molecular Crystals: The Effect of Molecular Packing and Polymorphism N2 - Crystal growth is an important process, which forms the basis for a wide variety of natural phenomena and engineering developments. This book provides a unique opportunity for a reader to gain knowledge about various aspects of crystal growth from advanced inorganic materials to inorganic/organic composites, it unravels some problems of molecular crystallizations and shows advances in growth of pharmaceutical crystals, it tells about biomineralization of mollusks and cryoprotection of living cells, it gives a chance to learn about statistics of chiral asymmetry in crystal structure. BT - Crystallization and Materials Science of Modern Artificial and Natural Crystals SP - Ch. 12 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/30671 DO - 10.5772/30671 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -