Crystals, Volume 9, Issue 6

The cubic intermetallic compound Sm${}_3$Co${}_4$Ge${}_{13}$ (space group $Pm\overline{3}n$ ) possesses a cage-like structure composed of Ge and displays an antiferromagnetic transition at $T_N\approx$ 6 K in magnetization, $M\left(T\right)$...

Herein, we describe the synthesis and single crystal X-ray diffraction characterization of several Pb(II) complexes using Schiff base hydrazido-based ligands and different counterions (NO₃⁻, I⁻ and ClO₄). In the three complexes reported i...

Ice cream is a complex multi-phase structure and its perceived quality is closely related to the small size of ice crystals in the product. Understanding the quantitative coarsening behaviour of ice crystals will help manufacturers optimise ice cream...

The ruthenium carbonyl compounds, Ru(bpy)(CO)₂X₂ (X = Cl, Br or I) act as neutral halogen bond (XB) acceptors when co-crystallized with 1,4-diiodotetrafluoro-benzene (DITFB). The halogen bonding strength of the Ru-X⋅⋅⋅I halogen bonds f...

A 2.45 GHz microwave-plasma chemical-vapor deposition (MPCVD) reactor was designed and built in-house by collaborating with Guangdong TrueOne Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. A cylindrical cavity was designed as the deposition chamber and a circumf...

Van der Waals heterojunctions based on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) show promising potential in optoelectronic devices, due to the ultrafast separation of photoexcited carriers and efficient generation of the photocurrent. Herein, this stu...

The crystal structure of the polymeric spin crossover compound Fe(3,4-dimethyl-pyridine)₂[Ag(CN)₂]₂ has been solved and its temperature dependence followed by means of single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction. This compound presents a two-step spi...

Topological insulators (TIs) have a bulk bandgap and gapless edge or surface states that host helically spin-polarized Dirac fermions. Theoretically, it has been predicted that gapless states could also be formed along dislocations in TIs. Recently,...

In this work, the resistive switching characteristics of resistive random access memories (RRAMs) containing Sm₂O₃ and V₂O₅ films were investigated. All the RRAM structures made in this work showed stable resistive switching behavior. The High-Resist...

With the growing demand for driving safety and convenience, Head-Up Displays (HUDs) have gained more and more interest in recent years. In this paper, we propose a HUD system with the ability to adjust the relative brightness of ambient light and vir...

This paper aims to understand the effect of local recrystallization (RX) on the low cycle fatigue fracture of a turbine-blade single crystal nickel-based superalloy. The fatigue life of the single crystal superalloy was evidently decreased by local r...

We show that topological interface mode can emerge in a one-dimensional elastic string system which consists of two periodic strings with different band topologies. To verify their topological features, Zak-phase of each band is calculated and reveal...

Conventional display applications of liquid crystals utilize thin layers of mesogenic materials, typically less than 10 µm. However, emerging non-display applications will require thicker, i.e., greater than 100 µm, layers of liquid cryst...

Low emissivity glass (low-e glass), which is often used in energy-saving buildings, has high thermal resistance and visible light transmission. Heavily doped wide band gap semiconductors like aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) and tin-doped indium oxide...

AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures are the base of many semiconductor devices. The fabrication of new types of devices demands heterostructures with special features, such as large total thickness (~20 μm), ultrathin layers (~1 nm), high repeatability (...

This paper presents results obtained for biconical tapered fibers surrounded/immersed in liquid crystal mixtures. The phenomenon of light propagating in the whole structure of a tapered fiber allows the creation of a sensor where the tapered region r...

Indium-incorporation with In_xGa_1-xN layers on GaN-microdisks has been systematically studied against growth parameters by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. The indium content (x) of In_xGa_1-xN layer increased to 44.2% with an In/(In + Ga) flux r...

The formation, dissociation, and reformation of cyclopentane (CP) hydrate in a sub-millimeter-sized capillary were conducted in this work, and the morphology of CP hydrate was obtained during above processes, respectively. The influences of the super...

We have prepared a series of pyridinium-based gemini amphiphiles. They exhibit thermotropic liquid–crystalline behavior depending on their alkyl chain lengths and anion species. By adjusting the alkyl chain lengths and selecting suitable anions...

Measurements of the solubility and metastable zone width (MSZW) of borax decahydrate (disodium tetraborate decahydrate) within chloride, sulfate and carbonate solutions were carried out. The MSZW was measured by the conventional polythermal method wi...

Liquid crystals (LCs) can always reflect variable optical properties in a broad terahertz (THz) band under external electric or magnetic fields. Based on the measurements of these varying properties, we can realize electric and magnetic field sensing...

The first Ce(III)-based coordination polymer ICR-9 (ICR stands for Inorganic Chemistry Řež), with the formula Ce₂(C₈H₁₀P₂O₄)₃, containing ditopic phenylene-1,4-bis(methylphosphinic acid) linker, was synthetized under solvothermal conditions. The crys...

Diamond crystallization in Mg-R₂O₃-C systems (R = Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb) was studied at 7.8 GPa and 1800 °C. It was found that rare-earth oxide additives in an amount of 10 wt % did not significantly affect both the degree of gra...

Phosphonate ligands demonstrate strong affinity for metal ions. However, there are several cases where the phosphonate is found non-coordinated to the metal ion. Such compounds could be characterized as salts, since the interactions involved are ioni...

Linking the microstructure to the mechanical properties is a key feature in the design and assessment of the durability of semi-crystalline polymers. This paper addresses the importance of a particular architecture inside spherulites. The use of the...

We combine theoretical and experimental tools to study elastic properties of Fe-Al-Ti superalloys. Focusing on samples with chemical composition Fe₇₁Al₂₂Ti₇, we use transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to detect their two-phase superalloy nano-stru...

This work is dedicated to the growth process and investigation of luminescent and scintillation properties of CeAlO₃ single crystals and CeAlO₃/CeAl₁₁O₁₈ metamaterials under e-beam and α-particles excitation. It has been shown that cathodolumin...

In this paper, we provide a crystal-chemical investigation of metavauxite, ideally FeAl₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂·8H₂O, from Llallagua (Bolivia) by using a multi-methodological approach based on EDS microchemical analysis, single crystal X-ray diffraction,...

Hexagonal pyramid-like InN nanocolumns were grown on Si(111) substrates via radio-frequency (RF) metal–organic molecular beam epitaxy (MOMBE) together with a substrate nitridation process. The metal–organic precursor served as a group-III...

Continuous, wide field-of-view, high-efficiency, and fast-response beam steering devices are desirable in a plethora of applications. Liquid crystals (LCs)—soft, bi-refringent, and self-assembled materials which respond to various external stim...

The differential quadrature method has been developed to calculate the elastic band gaps from the Bragg reflection mechanism in periodic structures efficiently and accurately. However, there have been no reports that this method has been successfully...

Vulcanized natural rubber (unfilled and filled with 20 phr carbon black) is strained. We suppress the macroscopic formation of fiber symmetry by choosing strip-shaped samples ("pure-shear geometry") and investigate the orientation of the resulting cr...

The therapeutic usage of cilostazol is limited owing to its poor aqueous solubility and oral bioavailability. Our aim was to produce cilostazol crystals with small average particle size; besides suitable roundness, narrow particle size distribution a...

The transparent conducting oxides ZnO and ZnO:Al are interesting materials for a wide range of applications. Several of these applications need a large area, single crystalline, and specially doped thin layers. A common technique for the fabrication...

In this study, the main deformation behavior in terms of geometrically necessary dislocations (GND) was investigated on a transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) stainless steel by using sharp indentation at nanometric length scale. Results evidence...

Mixed seeds of fused quartz particles and silicon particles were laid at the bottom of the crucible to assist the growth of multicrystalline silicon crystals. The full melting process was used, and then we found that the grown crystals had higher qua...

Methods for the synthesis of binuclear [Cu(hfac)₂L^Et]₂ and tetranuclear [[Cu(hfac)₂]₄(L^Et)₂] heterospin compounds based on copper hexafluoroacetylacetonate [Cu(hfac)₂] and 2-(4-ethylpyridin-3-yl)-4,5-bis(spirocyclopentyl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole-3-o...

Cry proteins have been the subject of intense research due to their ability to form crystals naturally in Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). In this research we developed a new strategy that allows for the removal of cadmium and chromium from wastewater by...

$C{a}_{2.90}M{e}_{0.10}^{2+}{\left(P{O}_4\right)}_2$ (with Me = Mn, Ni, Cu) β-tricalcium phosphate (TCP) powders were synthesized by solid-state reaction at T = 1200 °C and investigated by means of a combination of scanning electron...

Calcium carbonate biomimetic crystallization remains a topic of interest with respect to biomineralization areas in recent research. It is not easy to conduct high-throughput experiments with only a few macromolecule reagents using conventional exper...

We investigated the liquid crystal (LC) alignment behaviors of butyl hydroxybenzoate-substituted polystyrene (PBHB#; # = 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100, where # indicates the molar fraction of butyl hydroxybenzoate in the side chain), methyl hydroxybenzoate...

Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) and polymer-stabilized liquid crystal (PSLC) are two typical liquid crystal (LC)/polymer composites. PDLCs are usually prepared by dispersing LC droplets in a polymer matrix, while PSLC is a system in which the...

Several binary metal diphosphinate compounds (ML) have been reported for diphosphinate bonded by a single methylene fragment. In case of longer bridges, binary products are difficult to isolate in crystalline form. Here, using a solvent assisted mech...

A mononuclear iron(II) complex bearing the linear pentadentate N₅ Schiff-base ligand containing two 1,2,3-triazole moieties and the MeCN monodentate ligand, [Fe^IIMeCN(L_3-Me-3^Ph)](BPh₄)₂·MeCN·H₂O (1), have been prepared (L_3-Me-3^Ph = bis(...

The conformation of the title compounds was determined in solution by ¹H-NMR spectroscopy and in solid state by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) complemented with density functional theory. The compounds were found to exist exclusively in solut...

We investigated the magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of Gd_100-xCo_x ( $x$ = 40 to 56) thin films fabricated by the sputtering technique. Under an applied field change $\Delta H=20\mathrm{kOe}$ , the magnetic entropy change $(\Delta S_m)$ dec...

CsPbBr₃ and Cs₄PbBr₆ perovskite powders have been synthesized through a relatively simple low-temperature and low-cost method. Nanocrystalline films have also been deposited from solutions with four different molar compositions of binary salt precurs...

We investigate, using molecular dynamics simulations, the spontaneous homogeneous melting of benzene phase I under a high pressure of 1.0 GPa. We find an apparent stepwise transition via a metastable crystal phase, unlike the direct melting observed...