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Crystals, Volume 11, Issue 3

March 2021 - 100 articles

Cover Story: Electrons interact strongly with matter, which makes it possible to obtain high-resolution electron diffraction data from nano- and submicron-sized crystals. Using electron beam as a radiation source in a transmission electron microscope (TEM), ab initio structure determination can be conducted from crystals that are 6–7 orders of magnitude smaller than using X-rays. The rapid development of three-dimensional electron diffraction (3DED) techniques has attracted increasing interests in the field of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), where it is often difficult to obtain large and high-quality crystals for single-crystal X-ray diffraction. View this paper
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Articles (100)

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,417 Views
3 Pages

Biominerals: Formation, Function, Properties

  • Helmut Cölfen,
  • Erika Griesshaber and
  • Wolfgang W. Schmahl

17 March 2021

Triggered by geochemical cycles, large-scale terrestrial processes and evolution, a tremendous biodiversity evolved over the geological record and produced proto- and metazoa with biomineralized hard tissue, characterized by unique structural designs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,316 Views
17 Pages

Synthesis, Spectroscopic Characterization, and Biological Activities of New Binuclear Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II) Diimine Complexes

  • Ahmed Gaber,
  • Arafa A. M. Belal,
  • Ibrahim M. El-Deen,
  • Nader Hassan,
  • Rozan Zakaria,
  • Walaa F. Alsanie,
  • Ahmed M. Naglah and
  • Moamen S. Refat

17 March 2021

Metal-ligand complexes have attracted major interest due to their potential medical applications as anticancer agents. The work described in the current article aimed to synthesize, spectroscopic, thermal, and biological studies of some metal-diimine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,175 Views
14 Pages

Polaron Trapping and Migration in Iron-Doped Lithium Niobate

  • Laura Vittadello,
  • Laurent Guilbert,
  • Stanislav Fedorenko and
  • Marco Bazzan

17 March 2021

Photoinduced charge transport in lithium niobate for standard illumination, composition and temperature conditions occurs by means of small polaron hopping either on regular or defective lattice sites. Starting from Marcus-Holstein’s theory for polar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,623 Views
13 Pages

17 March 2021

Highly conductive TiO2 films with different Nb doping levels (up to 5 at%) were prepared by reactive DC magnetron sputtering under precise control of the oxygen partial pressure. They were deposited on unheated substrates, covered with a protective S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,886 Views
14 Pages

Improving Compactness of 3D Metallic Microstructures Printed by Laser-Induced Forward Transfer

  • Niv Gorodesky,
  • Sharona Sedghani-Cohen,
  • Ofer Fogel,
  • Amir Silber,
  • Maria Tkachev,
  • Zvi Kotler and
  • Zeev Zalevsky

16 March 2021

Laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT) has been shown to be a useful technique for the manufacturing of micron-scale metal structures. LIFT is a high-resolution, non-contact digital printing method that can support the fabrication of complex shapes an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,061 Views
23 Pages

Thermal Properties, Isothermal Decomposition by Direct Analysis in Real-Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry and Non Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics of Poly(Ethylene-co-Vinyl Alcohol)/Poly(ε-Caprolactone) Blend

  • Abdulaziz Ali Alghamdi,
  • Hussain Alattas,
  • Waseem Sharaf Saeed,
  • Abdel-Basit Al-Odayni,
  • Ahmed Yacine Badjah Hadj Ahmed,
  • Ahmad Abdulaziz Al-Owais and
  • Taieb Aouak

16 March 2021

A series of poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol)/poly(ε-caprolactone) blends with different compositions were prepared using solvent casting. The miscibility of this pair of polymers was investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and prov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,048 Views
13 Pages

16 March 2021

Na-β″-alumina (Na2O.~6Al2O3) is known to be an excellent sodium ion conductor in battery and sensor applications. In this study we report fabrication of Na- β″-alumina + YSZ dual phase composite to mitigate moisture and CO2 corrosion that otherwise c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,879 Views
19 Pages

Experimental Analysis and Mathematical Model of FSW Parameter Effects on the Corrosion Rate of Al 6061-T6-Cu C11000 Joints

  • Félix Alan Montes-González,
  • Nelly Abigaíl Rodríguez-Rosales,
  • Juan Carlos Ortiz-Cuellar,
  • Carlos Rodrigo Muñiz-Valdez,
  • Josué Gómez-Casas,
  • Jesús Salvador Galindo-Valdés and
  • Oziel Gómez-Casas

16 March 2021

Friction stir welding is characterized as an ecological and low-cost process in comparison to traditional welding techniques, and due to its application in the solid state, it is a feasible option for joining similar and/or dissimilar materials. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,744 Views
9 Pages

Microstructure and Optical Characterization of Mid-Wave HgCdTe Grown by MBE under Different Conditions

  • Xiao-Fang Qiu,
  • Sheng-Xi Zhang,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Yi-Cheng Zhu,
  • Cheng Dou,
  • San-Can Han,
  • Yan Wu and
  • Ping-Ping Chen

16 March 2021

The mid-wave single-crystal HgCdTe (211) films were successfully grown on GaAs (211) B substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Microstructure and optical properties of the MBE growth HgCdTe films grown at different temperatures were characterized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
12,372 Views
17 Pages

Strategies for High-Performance Large-Area Perovskite Solar Cells toward Commercialization

  • Tianzhao Dai,
  • Qiaojun Cao,
  • Lifeng Yang,
  • Mahmoud H. Aldamasy,
  • Meng Li,
  • Qifeng Liang,
  • Hongliang Lu,
  • Yiming Dong and
  • Yingguo Yang

16 March 2021

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have received a great deal of attention in the science and technology field due to their outstanding power conversion efficiency (PCE), which increased rapidly from 3.9% to 25.5% in less than a decade, comparable to sing...

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