Contents
Part I Nucleation and Crystal Growth
1 X-Ray Birefringence Imaging (XBI): A New Technique
for Spatially Resolved Mapping of Molecular Orientations
in Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Kenneth D. M. Harris, Rhian Patterson, Yating Zhou,
and Stephen P. Collins
2 Direct Visualization of Crystal Formation and Growth Probed
by the Organic Fluorescent Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Fuyuki Ito
3 Anti-solvent Crystallization Method for Production of Desired
Crystalline Particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Hiroshi Takiyama
4 Crystal Nucleation of Proteins Induced by Surface Plasmon
Resonance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Tetsuo Okutsu
5 Control of Crystal Size Distribution and Polymorphs
in the Crystallization of Organic Compounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Koichi Igarashi and Hiroshi Ooshima
6 Managing Thermal History to Stabilize/Destabilize
Pharmaceutical Glasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Kohsaku Kawakami
Part II Structure and Design of Crystals
7 Supramolecular, Hierarchical, and Energetical Interpretation
of Organic Crystals: Generation of Supramolecular Chirality
in Assemblies of Achiral Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Mikiji Miyata and Seiji Tsuzuki
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