Crystal growth simulation software
Generic Monte Carlo crystal-growth software for simulation of crystal habit and nanoscale surface topography
Video Tutorials
To help you get started growing crystals with CrystoGen, we have recorded a series of video guides on our YouTube channel.
CrystoGen Version v1.4.0
Solvent Screens
Seed Engineering
Seed Engineering
Arrays of solvents can be chosen easily through the new graphical user interface
Seed Engineering
Seed Engineering
Seed Engineering
Seeds can be engineered such as broken crystals
Surface Growth
Seed Engineering
Surface Growth
Visualisation of crystal growth on surfaces
Citing CrystoGen
When using CrystoGen to simulate the crystal growth of your materials, please cite original CrystalGrower protocols in your scientific publications as follows:
News
26-April-2026
CRYSTOGEN
CrystalGrower Ltd undergoes a rebrand to CrystoGen Ltd with the software environment called CrystoGen. The underlying kinetic Monte Carlo software is still based on the original CrystalGrower engine described in our original literature. However, as the functionality and complexity of the crystal-growth software architecture grows to encompass many other features it seemed appropriate to have a new name to embrace this total environment. The new company was launched at the MRS Spring Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.
31-Dec-2025
NEW SOFTWARE VERSION 1.4 AVAILABLE!!
New version can does seed engineering whereby a variety of shapes of seed crystals can be grown from which crystals can then be grown. This is useful for simulating crystal fracture. Also, crystals can be grown at interfaces with different interfacial energies and on different Miller planes download
1-Aug-2025
Alvin Walisinghe joins the CrystalGrower team. If you have any questions about CrystalGrower you can contact Alvin here
12-Dec-2024
Academic Licence issued for 2025 download
1-Apr-2024
Naomi La Porte joins the CrystalGrower team. If you have any questions about CrystalGrower you can contact Naomi here
10-Jan-2024
NEW SOFTWARE VERSION X 1.12 AVAILABLE!!
New version can calculate crystallisation energies for ~180 solvents; can incorporate multiple screw dislocations; displays surface energies; can simulate intergrowths/solid solutions; outputs site-type populations; outputs growth modifier sites for input to docking software
1-Nov-2023
Peter Spackman joins the CrystalGrower team. If you have any questions about CrystalGrower you can contact Peter here
1-June-2023
Nathan de Bruyn joins the CrystalGrower team. If you have any questions about CrystalGrower you can contact Nathan here
1-Jan-2023
Check out our latest publication in Chemical Science.
16-December-2022
New release of CrystalGrower_X_1.8.1.0 is live! Download it here.
08-June-2021
24-Feb-2021
17-Feb-2021
New release of CrystalGrower_X_1.3.1.0 is live! Download it here.
This version fixes a few minor bugs and one more major bug from version CrystalGrower_X_1.0.1.0 whereby the energies for a “net” simulation did not update if you set these energies to “vary” using the Graphical User Interface. There is also a new version of the visualiser CG Visualiser v1.70. For those using the Command Line Interface there is a small change to the input.txt file and a suitable updated version is included.
08-Dec-2020
The full release of CrystalGrower_X_1.0.1.0 is live! Download it here.
Read the Chemistry World feature on CrystalGrower .
26-Nov-2020
Beta version of CrystalGrower is available now!
18-Nov-2020
Check out our latest publication in Chemical Science.
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