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Crystals, Volume 10, Issue 7

July 2020 - 80 articles

Cover Story: X-ray free-electron lasers have a unique capability for time-resolved studies of protein dynamics and conformational changes on femto- and pico-second timescales. The extreme intensity of X-ray pulses can potentially cause significant modifications to the sample structure during exposure. Successful time-resolved XFEL crystallography depends on the unambiguous interpretation of the protein dynamics of interest resulting from the effects of radiation damage. Due to the higher X-ray ionization cross-section for relatively heavier elements, such as sulfur or metals, proteins containing such elements have a higher risk of radiation damage. An ongoing challenge with such local damage is to understand the residual bonding in these locally ionized systems and bond-breaking dynamics. View this paper
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Articles (80)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,537 Views
18 Pages

Fast Growth of Multi-Phase MoOx Synthesized by Laser Direct Writing Using Femtosecond Pulses

  • Santiago Camacho-Lopez,
  • Miroslava Cano-Lara and
  • Marco Camacho-Lopez

21 July 2020

Molybdenum oxide is an attractive material for application in several technology fields such as sensors, displays, and batteries, among many others. In this work, we present a reliable laser direct writing (LDW) method for synthesizing multi-phase mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,094 Views
11 Pages

21 July 2020

The crystal structure of the composite crystal Ca0.83CuO2 was investigated by synchrotron powder diffraction at high temperature. The incommensurate modulated structure was firstly analyzed at room temperature (RT) and successfully solved by adopting...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,158 Views
16 Pages

21 July 2020

With time-resolved crystallography (TRX), it is possible to follow the reaction dynamics in biological macromolecules by investigating the structure of transient states along the reaction coordinate. X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) have enabled TR...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
15,906 Views
30 Pages

On Directional Dendritic Growth and Primary Spacing—A Review

  • Joel Strickland,
  • Bogdan Nenchev and
  • Hongbiao Dong

20 July 2020

The primary spacing is intrinsically linked with the mechanical behavior of directionally solidified materials. Because of this relationship, a significant amount of solidification work is reported in the literature, which relates the primary spacing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,676 Views
7 Pages

The Effect of Operating Temperature on the Response Time of Optically Driven Liquid Crystal Displays

  • Vladimir Chigrinov,
  • Jiatong Sun,
  • Mikhail M. Kuznetsov,
  • Victor Belyaev and
  • Denis Chausov

20 July 2020

Optically driven liquid crystal displays (ODLCDs) realizes their display function by tuning the easy axis of liquid crystal (LC) molecules under polarized blue light, which has been utilized in some optical devices due to its advantages of ultra-low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,728 Views
28 Pages

19 July 2020

In this paper, concrete mixes utilizing two sizes of natural aggregate and two sources of lightweight and recycled aggregates were used to investigate the effect of aggregate type and specimen size and shape on the compressive strength of concrete. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
10,668 Views
18 Pages

17 July 2020

The analysis of line broadening in X-ray and neutron diffraction patterns using profile functions constructed on the basis of well-established physical principles and TEM observations of lattice defects has proven to be a powerful tool for characteri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,545 Views
12 Pages

Omindirectional Non-Reciprocity via 2D Modulated Radial Sonic Crystals

  • Davide Enrico Quadrelli,
  • Emanuele Riva,
  • Gabriele Cazzulani and
  • Francesco Braghin

17 July 2020

In this paper we report on nonreciprocal wave propagation in a 2D radial sonic crystal with space–time varying properties. We show that a modulation traveling along the radial direction reflects in omni-directional and isotropic nonreciprocal w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,429 Views
14 Pages

Limits of Solid Solutions and Thermal Deformations in the L-Alanine–L-Serine Amino Acid System

  • Elena Kotelnikova,
  • Roman Sadovnichii,
  • Lyudmila Kryuchkova and
  • Heike Lorenz

16 July 2020

The limits of solid solutions and thermal deformations in the L-alanine–L-serine (L-ala–L-ser) amino acid system have been determined. Thirteen amino acid mixtures with various proportions of the components L-ser/L-ala were studied using...

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