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Crystals, Volume 11, Issue 7

July 2021 - 124 articles

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Cover Story: While many structural insights are gained from conventional crystallography, standard geometric restraints from small-molecule structures lack information that could be provided by using energy gradients from force fields. Our investigation uses such gradients, as well as integral equation model descriptions of non-explicit solvent, in crystallographic refinement on 22 RNA crystal structures. The resulting models show markedly decreased numbers of clashes, as well as improved hydrogen bonding, all while sacrificing little to nothing in the observed intensities. View this paper

Articles (124)

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
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10 Pages

20 July 2021

The complexes trans-[PtBr2(NCNR2)2] (R2 = Me21, (CH2)52) were cocrystallized with 1,1,2,2-tetrabromoethane (tbe) in CH2Cl2 forming solvates 1·tbe and 2·tbe, respectively. In both solvates, tbe involved halogen bonding, viz. the C–Br···Br–Pt interacti...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
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14 Pages

Carbonation of Sodium Aluminate/Sodium Carbonate Solutions for Precipitation of Alumina Hydrates—Avoiding Dawsonite Formation

  • Danai Marinos,
  • Dimitrios Kotsanis,
  • Alexandra Alexandri,
  • Efthymios Balomenos and
  • Dimitrios Panias

20 July 2021

Experimental work has been performed to investigate the precipitation mechanism of aluminum hydroxide phases from sodium aluminate/sodium carbonate pregnant solutions by carbon dioxide gas purging. Such solutions result from leaching calcium aluminat...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,289 Views
13 Pages

20 July 2021

In steel-fiber-reinforced composites, when the direction of a steel fiber is parallel to the direction of tensile stress, the capacity of the strengthening and toughening effect of the steel fiber can be fully applied to the composites. In this paper...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,171 Views
16 Pages

Petrographic-Mineralogical Characterization of Archaeological Materials from “Casa di Diana” Mithraeum Sited in the Open Museum of Ostia Antica

  • Claudia Scatigno,
  • Maria Preite Martinez,
  • Nagore Prieto-Taboada,
  • Juan Manual Madariaga and
  • Aida Maria Conte

20 July 2021

Mithraea, religious Roman buildings, are very common in Italian archeological sites. There are sixteen in Ostia Antica (Rome, Italy)The poor state of conservation, due to the intrinsic environmental conditions, characterized them: they consist of ope...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,037 Views
17 Pages

Fluorescent Azobenzene-Containing Compounds: From Structure to Mechanism

  • Lulu Xue,
  • Ying Pan,
  • Shaohai Zhang,
  • Yinjie Chen,
  • Haifeng Yu,
  • Yonggang Yang,
  • Lixin Mo,
  • Zhicheng Sun,
  • Luhai Li and
  • Huai Yang

20 July 2021

The reversible photoisomerization of azobenzenes has been extensively studied to construct systems with optical responsiveness; however, this process limits the luminescence of these compounds. Recently, there have been many efforts to design and syn...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,671 Views
13 Pages

20 July 2021

In this paper, Ti:Sa amplifiers with crystals of the different geometries are discussed. Benefits of using this active medium for a thin disk (TD) and slab amplifiers are evaluated numerically and tested experimentally. Thermal management for amplifi...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,424 Views
11 Pages

19 July 2021

In this work, the microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of new body-centered cubic (BCC)-based Al-Ti-Zr-Nb-Ta-Mo-V refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) with coherent B2 precipitation are investigated. These designed alloy ingots were...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,119 Views
11 Pages

19 July 2021

We studied the equilibrium self-assembly of an equimolar mixture of uniaxial liquid crystals (LCs) and magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) using molecular dynamics simulations. The LCs are modeled by ellipsoids interacting via Gay–Berne potential, and MNPs...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,677 Views
17 Pages

17 July 2021

Compressive strength is a well-known measurement to evaluate the endurance of a given concrete mixture to stress factors, such as compressive loads. A suggested approach to assess compressive strength of concrete is to assume that it follows a probab...

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