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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
8 Citations
3,580 Views
10 Pages

13 February 2020

In this paper, a mechanistic model is developed to address the effect of temperature on the hardness-depth relationship of single crystals. Two fundamental hardening mechanisms are considered in the hardness model, including the temperature dependent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,372 Views
15 Pages

Rapid Growth of KDP Crystals in the [101] Direction

  • Mengfei Qin,
  • Xinguang Xu,
  • Guangwei Yu,
  • Bo Wang and
  • Wenyong Cheng

12 February 2020

KDP crystals have important applications in inertial confinement fusion. However, during the rapid growth of large-sized KDP crystals, inclusion is prone to occur. The existence of inclusion will lead to the reduction of crystal quality and utilizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,484 Views
15 Pages

12 February 2020

In this study, molecular dynamic simulations are employed to investigate the homogeneous nucleation mechanism of NaCl crystal in solutions. According to the simulations, the dissolved behaviors of NaCl in water are dependent on ion concentrations. Wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,553 Views
11 Pages

12 February 2020

Structural changes of chloride and bromide complexes, [Ni(Et2en)2(H2O)2]Cl2 (designated as 1a) and [Ni(Et2en)2]Br2 (2a), have been investigated by using simultaneous measurements of powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and differential scanning calorimetry...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,114 Views
11 Pages

12 February 2020

In this paper, the Monte Carlo method and numerical model are used to build the electrical model of a SiC-based betavoltaic microbattery using a 3H source, and the influences of structural parameters and the surface recombination effect on the output...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,953 Views
13 Pages

Double-Track Waveguides inside Calcium Fluoride Crystals

  • Wendwesen Gebremichael,
  • Lionel Canioni,
  • Yannick Petit and
  • Inka Manek-Hönninger

12 February 2020

Calcium Fluoride (CaF2) was selected owing to its cubic symmetry and excellent luminescence properties as a crystal of interest, and ultrafast laser inscription of in-bulk double-track waveguides was realized. The guiding properties of these waveguid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,985 Views
10 Pages

Wear and Corrosion Behaviour of Supersaturated Surface Layers in the High-Entropy Alloy Systems CrMnFeCoNi and CrFeCoNi

  • Thomas Lindner,
  • Martin Löbel,
  • Erik Saborowski,
  • Lisa-Marie Rymer and
  • Thomas Lampke

12 February 2020

The surface hardening of single-face-centred cubic (fcc)-phase CrMnFeCoNi and the manganese-free CrFeCoNi alloy was conducted using low-temperature nitrocarburisation. The microstructural investigations reveal the successful formation of a homogeneou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,500 Views
12 Pages

12 February 2020

Three-dimensional numerical simulations were conducted for the Top-Seeded Solution Growth (TSSG) process of silicon carbide (SiC) crystals. We investigated the influence of coils frequency and peak current, and an applied rotating magnetic field (RMF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,041 Views
14 Pages

11 February 2020

A linear regression model is presented in this study to determine the pre-exponential factor and interfacial energy of the crystallized substance based on classical nucleation theory using the metastable zone width data. The nucleation event is assum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,155 Views
21 Pages

11 February 2020

Interdisciplinary and sustainability represent the main characteristics of this paper due to the fact that this research is offering a connection between two main areas—agronomy and construction, by using hemp shiv for the design of new buildin...

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Crystals - ISSN 2073-4352