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Crystals, Volume 10, Issue 2

February 2020 - 89 articles

Cover Story: An XtalController was used to monitor the crystallization of two enzymes, the CCA-adding enzyme of the psychrophilic bacterium Planococcus halocryophilus, and the hen egg-white lysozyme in the presence of the Tb-Xo4 crystallophore. Using light scattering, the XtalController allowed us to follow the nucleating effect of Tb-Xo4 on lysozyme and produce high-diffraction-quality crystals for structure determination. This novel technology opens a way to the rational production of samples for crystallography, ranging from nanocrystals for electron diffraction to microcrystals for serial or conventional X-ray diffraction and larger crystals for neutron diffraction. View this paper
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Articles (89)

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,742 Views
12 Pages

16 February 2020

A small quantity of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) flakes is doped into a nematic liquid crystal (LC). The epitaxial interaction between the LC molecules and the h-BN flakes rising from the π−π electron stacking between the LC’s ben...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,029 Views
14 Pages

Synthesis, X-ray Single Crystal, Conformational Analysis and Cholinesterase Inhibitory Activity of a New Spiropyrrolidine Scaffold Tethered Benzo[b]Thiophene Analogue

  • Assem Barakat,
  • Saied M. Soliman,
  • Saeed Alshahrani,
  • Mohammad Shahidul Islam,
  • M. Ali,
  • Abdullah Mohammed Al-Majid and
  • Sammer Yousuf

15 February 2020

Described herein is a one-pot protocol for the synthesis of a substituted spiropyrrolidine scaffold tethered benzo[b]thiophene analogue from (E)-3-(benzo[b]thiophen-2-yl)-1-(4-fluoro- phenyl)-prop-2-en-1-one. The described protocol has the advantage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,571 Views
10 Pages

3D Numerical Analysis of the Asymmetric Three-Phase Line of Floating Zone for Silicon Crystal Growth

  • Xue-Feng Han,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Satoshi Nakano,
  • Hirofumi Harada,
  • Yoshiji Miyamura and
  • Koichi Kakimoto

15 February 2020

A numerical simulation has been carried out to study the asymmetric heat transfer, fluid flow, and three-phase line to explain the phenomenon of the spillage of the melt in floating zone (FZ) silicon growth. A three-dimensional high-frequency electro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,145 Views
12 Pages

Oxidation of Thin Titanium Films: Determination of the Chemical Composition of the Oxide and the Oxygen Diffusion Factor

  • Sergey Y. Sarvadii,
  • Andrey K. Gatin,
  • Vasiliy A. Kharitonov,
  • Nadezhda V. Dokhlikova,
  • Sergey A. Ozerin,
  • Maxim V. Grishin and
  • Boris R. Shub

14 February 2020

The morphologies and local electronic structures of titanium coatings deposited on the surfaces of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite were determined. Chemical compositions of the oxides formed on the coating surfaces were established. A theoretical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,367 Views
14 Pages

Nanosphere Lithography for Structuring Polycrystalline Diamond Films

  • Mária Domonkos,
  • Pavel Demo and
  • Alexander Kromka

14 February 2020

This paper deals with the structuring of polycrystalline diamond thin films using the technique of nanosphere lithography. The presented multistep approaches relied on a spin-coated self-assembled monolayer of polystyrene spheres, which served as a l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,234 Views
10 Pages

14 February 2020

Uniformly dispersed luminescent probes with a high brightness and high resolution are desired in bio imaging fields. Here, ~100 nm sized and well-dispersed spheres of RE3+ doped α-NaYF4 (rare earth (RE) = Eu, Tb, Ce, Er, and Tm) have been facil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,390 Views
6 Pages

13 February 2020

Inverted solution-processed SMPV1:PC71BM small molecule organic photovoltaic solar cells (SM-OPVs) were fabricated. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of halogen-free SM-OPVs reached around 5.07%. The absorption spectra at different device thickne...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,859 Views
15 Pages

13 February 2020

Complexes between proteins are at the basis of almost every process in cells. Their study, from a structural perspective, has a pivotal role in understanding biological functions and, importantly, in drug development. X-ray crystallography represents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,491 Views
14 Pages

13 February 2020

To study the effects of pulsed magnetic fields of different intensities on the dislocation density, residual stress, and hardness of Cr4Mo4V steel, magnetic treatment is conducted at 0, 1.0, 1.3, 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 T. The dislocation density and resid...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,316 Views
15 Pages

13 February 2020

Ever since the first structure of an enzyme, lysozyme, was solved, scientists have been eager to explore how these molecules perform their catalytic function. There has been an overwhelmingly large body of publications that report the X-ray structure...

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Crystals - ISSN 2073-4352