This book presents new approaches that offer a better characterization of the interrelationship between crystalline and amorphous phases. In recent years, the use of dielectric spectroscopy has significantly improved our understanding of crystallization. The combination of modern scattering methods, using either synchrotron light or neutrons and infrared spectroscopy with dielectrics, is now helping to reveal modifications of both crystalline and amorphous phases. In turn, this yields insights into the underlying physics of the crystallization process in various materials, e.g. polymers, liquid crystals and diverse liquids. The book offers an excellent introduction to a valuable application of dielectric spectroscopy, and a helpful guide for every scientist who wants to study crystallization processes by means of dielectric spectroscopy.

General Concepts of Crystallization: Some Recent Results and Possible Future Developments

High-Pressure Crystallization Of Glass-Forming Liquids At Varying Thermodynamic Conditions
Crystallization Of Amorphous Pharmaceuticals At Ambient And Elevated Pressure Conditions
Ordering Transitions In Short-Chain Alcohols
Isothermal and Non-isothermal Crystallization in Liquid Crystals as seen by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Control of Crystallization Pathways by Electric Fields
Dynamics of water in partially crystallized solutions of glass forming materials and polymers: Implications on the behavior of bulk Water
Order And Dielectric Relaxation During Polymer Crystallization
Crystallization of Polymers Under 1d Confinement
Dielectric Behaviour Of Nonpolar Polymers And Their Composites: The Case Of Semicrystalline Polyolefins
Confined Glassy Dynamics in a Star-Shaped Polymer Induced by Crystallization: Case study of Polyhedral Oligomeric Polysilesquioxane-Isotactic Polystyrene (POSS-iPS).