Crystal design of organic pigments — a prototype discipline of materials science

The significance of crystal properties for the product performance of organic pigments has always required special efforts to analyze, to control and to design these materials. In this article recent developments and the modern scientific facets of pigments research (e.g. crystal structure prediction and polymorphism, electronic structures of molecular crystals, and crystal morphology determination) will be discussed. The broad interest in these topics is shared with many other areas of scientific and industrial research on molecular solids.