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Lessons from biomineralization: comparing the growth strategies of mollusc shell prismatic and nacreous layers in Atrina rigida; Sintering, crystallisation and biodegradation behaviour of Bioglass(r)-derived glass-ceramics; The formation of nanoscale structures in soluble phosphosilicate glasses for biomedical applications: MD simulations; Towards an atomic-scale understanding of crystal growth in solution; A multi-technique approach for probing the evolution of structural properties during crystallization of organic materials from solution; An examination of polymorphic stability and molecular conformational flexibility as a function of crystal size associated with the nucleation and growth of benzophenone; General Discussion; Insights into the crystal growth mechanisms of zeolites from combined experimental imaging and theoretical studies; Crystal growth in nanoporous framework materials; New insights into the formation of microporous materials by in situ scattering techniques; Cocrystal architecture and properties: design and building of chiral and racemic structures by solid-solid reactions; The nucleation of inosine: the impact of solution chemistry on the appearance of polymorphic and hydrated crystal forms; Membrane protein crystallization in lipidic mesophases. A mechanism study using X-ray microdiffraction; General Discussion; Test of Cairns-Smiths crystals-as-genes hypothesisPrecipitation of L-glutamic acid: determination of growth kinetics; Precursor structures in the crystallization/precipitation processes of CaCO3 and control of particle formation by polyelectrolytes; Does supercooled liquid Si have a density maximum?; Simulating ice nucleation, one molecule at a time, with the DFT microscope; Nucleation in alkali metal chloride solution observed at the cluster level; General Discussion; The effect of oxygen-containing reagents on the crystal morphology and orientation in tungsten oxide thin films deposited via atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition (APCVD) on glass substrates; Stabilization of metastable phases in spatially restricted fields: the case of the Fe2O3 polymorphs; Using in situ synchrotron radiation wide angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) to study CaCO3 scale formation at ambient and elevated temperature; Nucleation and control of clathrate hydrates: insights from simulation; Crystallization of carbon tetrachloride in confined geometries; General Discussion; Concluding Remarks; Crystal growth and nucleation: tracking precursors to polymorphs