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Crystals, Volume 8, Issue 7

July 2018 - 45 articles

Cover Story: Melamine (C3N6H6, 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine) is a stable s-­triazine widely found in consumer products, which is structurally and chemically related to both energetic and ultra-hard materials. Melamine’s extensive network of hydrogen bonds provides its stability, even under extreme pressure. When compressed, these hydrogen bonds accommodate the decrease in intermolecular distance without disrupting covalent bonds. New electronic interactions also occur, shown by spectroscopic and Hirshfeld surface analysis, that could foster synthesis of new functional materials. View this paper
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Articles (45)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,870 Views
8 Pages

Design of an Electrically Tunable Micro-Lens Based on Graded Photonic Crystal

  • YongLe Qi,
  • XiaoHong Sun,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • WenYang Li and
  • ZhongYong Wang

23 July 2018

A micro-lens with an adjustable focal length (FL) is designed by using Graded Photonic Crystal (GPC) structures and a Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal (PDLC) material. The GPCs are formed by gradually changing the radius of the polymer rods in the Ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,790 Views
18 Pages

22 July 2018

The control of freezing saline water at the micrometer level has become very important in cryosurgery and cryopreservation of stem cells and foods. Adding antifreeze protein to saline water is a promising method for controlling the freezing because t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,011 Views
9 Pages

Does Thermosalient Effect Have to Concur with a Polymorphic Phase Transition? The Case of Methscopolamine Bromide

  • Teodoro Klaser,
  • Jasminka Popović,
  • José A. Fernandes,
  • Serena C. Tarantino,
  • Michele Zema and
  • Željko Skoko

21 July 2018

In this paper, we report for the first time an observed thermosalient effect that is not accompanied with a phase transition. Our experiments found that methscolopamine bromide—a compound chemically very similar to another thermosalient materia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,455 Views
13 Pages

20 July 2018

We studied the photochemical reactivity of salts of 4-(2,4,6-triisopropylbenzoyl)benzoic acid with propane-1,2-diamine (1), methanamine (2), cyclohexanamine (3), and morpholine (4), for compounds (1), (3), and (4) at 0.1 MPa and for compounds (1) and...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,155 Views
9 Pages

20 July 2018

In this study, we investigated a unique aspect of the supramolecular polymerization of tetrakis (4-sulfonatophenyl) porphyrin (TPPS), a self-assembling porphyrin, under non-equilibrium conditions by subtracting the effects of back-pressure on its pol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,259 Views
7 Pages

19 July 2018

Boron-doped diamonds were synthesized by the reaction of an amorphous globular carbon powder (80%) with a powder of 1,7-di (oxymethyl)-M-carborane (20%) in a ‘toroid’-type high-pressure chamber at a pressure of 8.0 GPa and temperature of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,916 Views
15 Pages

Cryochemically Obtained Nanoforms of Antimicrobial Drug Substance Dioxidine and Their Physico-chemical and Structural Properties

  • Tatyana I. Shabatina,
  • Olga I. Vernaya,
  • Vladimir P. Shabatin,
  • Iuliia V. Evseeva,
  • Michail Ya Melnikov,
  • Andrew N. Fitch and
  • Vladimir V. Chernyshev

19 July 2018

Nanoforms of the antimicrobial drug substance 2,3-bis-(hydroxymethyl) quinoxaline-N,N′-dioxide with particles sizes between 50 and 300 nm were obtained by cryochemical modification of the initial pharmaceutical substance using a freeze-drying t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,935 Views
13 Pages

Small Polaron Hopping in Fe:LiNbO3 as a Function of Temperature and Composition

  • Laura Vittadello,
  • Marco Bazzan,
  • Simon Messerschmidt and
  • Mirco Imlau

18 July 2018

Small-polaron hopping involved in charge transport in Fe-doped congruent lithium niobate is investigated as a function of temperature and composition by means of light-induced transient absorption spectroscopy. The relaxation dynamics of the light-in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,358 Views
11 Pages

18 July 2018

In this study, the recrystallization and production of spherical submicron particles of sulfasalazine, an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), were performed using the supercritical antisolvent (SAS) process, a nonconventional crystallization tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,233 Views
17 Pages

Deposition Technologies of High-Efficiency CIGS Solar Cells: Development of Two-Step and Co-Evaporation Processes

  • Chia-Hua Huang,
  • Wen-Jie Chuang,
  • Chun-Ping Lin,
  • Yueh-Lin Jan and
  • Yu-Chiu Shih

18 July 2018

The two-step process including the deposition of the metal precursors followed by heating the metal precursors in a vacuum environment of Se overpressure was employed for the preparation of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) films. The CIGS films selenized at the r...

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Crystals - ISSN 2073-4352