Crystals | Invitation to Explore the Editor’s Choice Articles (Issue 2, February 2023)

“Crystallographic Characterization of Sodium Ions in a Bacterial Leucine/Sodium Symporter”
by Akira Karasawa, Haijiao Liu, Matthias Quick, Wayne A. Hendrickson and Qun Liu
Crystals 2023, 13(2), 183; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13020183
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/13/2/183

“Study on the Surface Structure of N-Doped 4H-SiC Homoepitaxial Layer Dependence on the Growth Temperature and C/Si Ratio Deposited by CVD”
by Zhuorui Tang, Lin Gu, Hongping Ma, Kefeng Dai, Qian Luo, Nan Zhang, Jiyu Huang and Jiajie Fan
Crystals 2023, 13(2), 193; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13020193
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/13/2/193

“Thickness Debit Effect in Creep Performance of a Ni₃Al-Based Single-Crystal Superalloy with [001] Orientation”
by Shuangqi Zhang, Guoquan Ma, Haibo Wang, Wenqi Guo, Haigen Zhao, Yong Shang, Yanling Pei, Shusuo Li and Shengkai Gong
Crystals 2023, 13(2), 200; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13020200
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/13/2/200

“Role of Persistent Slip Bands and Persistent Slip Markings in Fatigue Crack Initiation in Polycrystals”
by Jaroslav Polák
Crystals 2023, 13(2), 220; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13020220
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/13/2/220

“Structural Origin of Anisotropic Thermal Expansion of Molecular Crystals and Implication for the Density Rule Probed with Four ROY Polymorphs”
by Sayantan Chattoraj and Changquan Calvin Sun
Crystals 2023, 13(2), 270; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13020270
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/13/2/270

“Assessing Strain Rate Sensitivity of Nanotwinned Al–Zr Alloys through Nanoindentation”
by Nicholas Allen Richter, Xuanyu Sheng, Bo Yang, Benjamin Thomas Stegman, Haiyan Wang and Xinghang Zhang
Crystals 2023, 13(2), 276; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13020276
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/13/2/276

“Photoalignment and Photofixation of Chromonic Mesophase in Ionic Linear Polysiloxanes Using a Dual Irradiation System”
by Mitsuo Hara, Ayaka Masuda, Shusaku Nagano and Takahiro Seki
Crystals 2023, 13(2), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13020326
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/13/2/326

“Dependence of Charpy Impact Properties of Fe-30Mn-0.05C Steel on Microstructure”
by Jianchao Xiong, Heng Li, Ling Kong, Xiaodan Zhang, Wenquan Cao and Yuhui Wang
Crystals 2023, 13(2), 353; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13020353
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/13/2/353