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Crystals, Volume 13, Issue 6

June 2023 - 129 articles

Cover Story: Surface chemistry and roughness influence surface energy and hence the wettability of the material’s surface. We have analysed the time dependence of the oxide layer growth and possible surface adsorbates on the surface topography of an Al59Cu25Fe13B3 quasicrystalline material in relation to changes in the surface energy. Under ambient conditions, the quasicrystal was naturally covered by an oxide layer; we refer to its surface energy as “surfenergy” to distinguish it from the conventional surface energy of a bare quasicrystal surface. The surfenergy depends on the polar component, which is the most sensitive to the material’s processing and may be tuned over more than an order of magnitude. The results indicate possible routes for the engineering and fine-tuning of quasicrystalline surfaces. View this paper
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Articles (129)

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,174 Views
13 Pages

20 June 2023

The research on rapid and efficient detection of microplastics in water is still in its early stages. Fluorescence feature recognition represents an important and innovative approach to microplastic detection. While carbon quantum dots have been wide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,168 Views
19 Pages

Experimental Study of the Evolution of Creep-Resistant Steel’s High-Temperature Oxidation Behavior

  • Gabriela Baranová,
  • Mária Hagarová,
  • Miloš Matvija,
  • Dávid Csík,
  • Vladimír Girman,
  • Jozef Bednarčík and
  • Pavel Bekeč

20 June 2023

This study shows that in an atmosphere containing water vapor, the oxide layer on the surface of the 9CrNB steel MarBN (Martensitic 9Cr steel strengthened by Boron and MX Nitrides) was formed by an outer layer of hematite Fe2O3 and Cr2O3 and an inner...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,369 Views
8 Pages

20 June 2023

Two-dimensional materials present abundant novel properties when used in advanced applications, which develops considerable focus. In this investigation, the first-principles calculations are explored to study the structural characteristic of the mon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,260 Views
19 Pages

Crystal Structure Analysis and Characterization of NADP-Dependent Glutamate Dehydrogenase with Alcohols Activity from Geotrichum candidum

  • Jing Zhu,
  • Hai Hou,
  • Kun Li,
  • Xiaoguang Xu,
  • Chunmei Jiang,
  • Dongyan Shao,
  • Junling Shi and
  • Dachuan Yin

20 June 2023

To better understand its mechanism of activity towards higher alcohols, we overexpressed and purified new Geotrichum candidum GDH (GcGDH). The purified GcGDH (50.27 kDa) was then crystallized, and the crystal diffracted to a resolution of 2.3 Å...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,153 Views
17 Pages

Temperature Induced Monoclinic to Orthorhombic Phase Transition in Protonated ZSM-5 Zeolites with Different Si/Al Ratios: An In-Situ Synchrotron X-ray Powder Diffraction Study

  • Nicola Precisvalle,
  • Maura Mancinelli,
  • Matteo Ardit,
  • Giada Beltrami,
  • Lara Gigli,
  • Alfredo Aloise,
  • Enrico Catizzone,
  • Massimo Migliori,
  • Girolamo Giordano and
  • Vincenzo Guidi
  • + 1 author

20 June 2023

ZSM-5 zeolite is the synthetic counterpart to mutinaite. After thermal activation of the as-synthesized form, the symmetry of the ZSM-5 zeolite is lowered to the monoclinic P21/n. ZSM-5 then undergoes a polymorphic displacive phase transition from th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,093 Views
12 Pages

20 June 2023

The densification of cemented carbides during sintering was studied using an existing constitutive model based on powder particle size and material composition. In the present analysis, we study how well the constitutive model can capture the experim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,631 Views
11 Pages

20 June 2023

Agate attracts the attention of gem mineralogists because of its variable colors. The color of agate is closely related to its naming and classification, so it is necessary to study the color and mineral origin of agate. In this paper, the mineralogi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,929 Views
9 Pages

Recent Advances in Polydopamine for Surface Modification and Enhancement of Energetic Materials: A Mini-Review

  • Ziquan Qin,
  • Dapeng Li,
  • Yapeng Ou,
  • Sijia Du,
  • Qingjie Jiao,
  • Jiwu Peng and
  • Ping Liu

19 June 2023

Polydopamine (PDA), inspired by the adhesive mussel foot proteins, is widely applied in chemical, biological, medical, and material science due to its unique surface coating capability and abundant active sites. Energetic materials (EMs) play an esse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,522 Views
14 Pages

Developing CeO2-CoAl2O4 Semiconductor Ionic Based Heterostructure Composite Electrolyte for Low-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs)

  • Yiwang Dong,
  • Muhammad Yousaf,
  • Muhammad Ali Kamran Yousaf Shah,
  • Muhammad Akbar,
  • Yuzheng Lu,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Qadeer Akbar Sial,
  • Peng Cao and
  • Changhong Deng

19 June 2023

Semiconductor ionic electrolytes, especially heterostructure composites, have a significant role in enhancing oxide ion conductivity and peak power density (PPD) because of their interfacial contact. In this work, the fluorite structure CeO2 and spin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,220 Views
16 Pages

Two Conformational Polymorphs of a Bioactive Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine

  • Sang Loon Tan,
  • Yee Seng Tan,
  • Jia Hui Ng,
  • Anton V. Dolzhenko and
  • Edward R. T. Tiekink

19 June 2023

Two monoclinic (P21/c; Z′ = 1) polymorphs, α (from methanol) and β (from ethanol, n-propanol and iso-propanol), of a bioactive pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine derivative have been isolated and characterised by X-ray crystallography as well...

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