“…In particular, crystal alignment is an attractive tool for producing functional materials, because physical properties of materials, such as the electric, magnetic, thermal, and mechanical properties, can be controlled if these properties have an anisotropic nature. With the development of the technology of superconducting magnets, crystals of nonmagnetic, magnetically anisotropic materials such as metals, [4][5][6] ceramics, 7,8) and polymers 9) can be aligned by the imposition of a strong magnetic field. To form unidirectionally aligned crystals for a material with a magnetic anisotropy of c < a , a combined process involving the imposition of a magnetic field and the rotation of a sample has been proposed.…”