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General Concepts of Crystallization: Some Recent Results
and Possible Future Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Jürn W. P. Schmelzer and Christoph Schick
High-Pressure Crystallization of Glass-Forming Liquids at Varying
Thermodynamic Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Karolina Adrjanowicz
Crystallization of Amorphous Pharmaceuticals at Ambient
and Elevated Pressure Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Justyna Knapik-Kowalczuk, Krzysztof Chmiel, and Marian Paluch
Ordering Transitions in Short-Chain Alcohols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Alejandro Sanz
Isothermal and Non-isothermal Crystallization in Liquid Crystals
as Seen by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and Differential
Scanning Calorimetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Małgorzata Jasiurkowska-Delaporte
Control of Crystallization Pathways by Electric Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Karolina Adrjanowicz and Ranko Richert
Dynamics of Water in Partially Crystallized Solutions of Glass
Forming Materials and Polymers: Implications on the Behavior
of Bulk Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Silvina Cerveny and Jan Swenson
Order and Dielectric Relaxation During Polymer Crystallization . . . . . . 195
Aurora Nogales, Tiberio A. Ezquerra, Michelina Soccio,
and Marianella Hernández
Crystallization of Polymers Under 1D Confinement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Simone Napolitano
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