X-ray crystallography remains the gold standard for high-resolution structural biology, yet obtaining diffraction-quality crystals continues to pose a major bottleneck due to inherently low success rates. This review advocates a paradigm shift from p...
A high-quality Sn-based perovskite absorption layer and effective carrier transport are the basis for high-performance Sn-based perovskite solar cells. The suppression of Sn2+ oxidation and rapid crystallization is the key to obtaining high-quality S...
Three co-formers of 2-chloro-4-nitroaniline (CNA), 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB), and 4,4′-biphenol (DOD) were selected to prepare the co-crystal of progesterone (PROG) based on crystal engineering strategies. These co-crystals were successfu...
In the coming years, multipurpose catalysts for delivering different products under the same chemical condition will be required for developing smart devices for industrial or household use. In order to design such multipurpose devices with two or mo...
Protein crystallization can serve as a purification step in biotechnological processes but is often limited by the non-crystallizability of proteins. Enabling or improving crystallization is mostly achieved by high-throughput screening of crystalliza...
The crystal phase, alongside the composition, morphology, architecture, facet, size, and dimensionality, has been recognized as a critical factor influencing the properties of noble metal nanomaterials in various applications. In particular, unconven...
Grain boundaries play a vital role in determining the structural, functional, mechanical, and electrical properties of semiconductor materials. Recent studies have yielded great advances in understanding and modulating the grain boundaries via semico...
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. It is a global quandary that requires the administration of many different active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) with different characteristics. As is the case with many APIs, cancer treatments exhibit...
Industrial biotechnology offers a potential ecological solution for PET recycling under relatively mild reaction conditions via enzymatic degradation, particularly using the leaf branch compost cutinase (LCC) quadruple mutant ICCG. To improve the eff...
Crystal Structure Algorithm (CryStAl) is a new meta-heuristic algorithm, and it has been studied by many scholars because of its wide adaptability and the fact that there is no need to set parameters in advance. An improved crystal structure algorith...
As the requirements in terms of crystal defect/quality and production yield are generally contradictory, it is necessary to develop methods in order to find the best compromise for the growth conditions of a given crystal. Simple growth-rate/temperat...
The use of crystal engineering to convert liquids into crystalline solids remains a powerful method for inhibiting undesired degradation pathways. When nicotine, a liquid sensitive to both light and air, is combined with the GRAS-listed compound, gen...
Bone regeneration using Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) alongside various engineered scaffolds has attracted considerable attention over the years. The field has seen extensive research in preclinical animal models, leading to the approval of two...
The concept of pseudo-bifurcated chalcogen bond has been proposed for the first time in this paper. It was found that the anticooperative effects between two chalcogen bonds of the pseudo-bifurcated chalcogen bond are not very large as compared to th...
Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is a real-time, nanogram-accurate technique for analyzing various processes on biomaterial surfaces. QCM has proven to be an excellent tool in tissue engineering as it can monitor key parameters in developing cellula...
Layered hybrid halide perovskites (LHHPs) are an emerging type of semiconductor with a set of unique optoelectronic properties. However, the solution processing of high-quality LHHPs films with desired optical properties and phase composition is a ch...
This paper presents the results of an analysis of resistance to hydrogen embrittlement and offers solutions and technologies for manufacturing castings of components for critical applications, such as blades for gas turbine engines (GTEs). The values...
Crystal engineering of multi-component molecular crystals, cocrystals, is a subject of growing interest, thanks in part to the potential utility of pharmaceutical cocrystals as drug substances with improved properties. Whereas molecular cocrystals (M...
Among perovskites, the research on cesium lead iodides (CsPbI3) has attracted a large research community, owing to their all-inorganic nature and promising solar cell performance. Typically, the CsPbI3 solar cell devices are prepared at various heter...
Wastewater containing triphenylmethane dyes such as malachite green (MG), discharged by textile and food industries, poses significant carcinogenic risks and ecological hazards. Conventional physical adsorption methods fail to degrade these pollutant...
Conglomerate formation, where enantiomers within a racemic mixture self-segregate upon crystallization, is an advantageous property for obtaining chirally pure crystals and allows large-scale chiral resolution. However, the prevalence of conglomerate...
Amorphous phase separation (APS) is ubiquitously found in a large number of glass systems, because the glass can be regarded as solid with a heterogeneous structure at the nanoscale. However, little attention has been paid to the big challenges in ut...
The pre-formulation of pharmaceutical cocrystals and salts is a concept of crystal engineering that has emerged as a promising technique for drug development in pharmaceutical industry. Recent introduction of pharmaceutical cocrystals in regulatory g...
Tissue engineering (TE) is an innovative approach to tackling many diseases and body parts that need to be replaced by developing artificial tissues and organs. Bioinks play an important role in the success of various TE applications. A bioink refers...
Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) have emerged as a promising candidate for large-scale energy storage due to their inherent safety, low cost, and environmental friendliness. However, manganese dioxide (MnO2)-based cathodes, which are widely studied...
Regulating the crystallization dynamics of perovskite films is key to improving the efficiency and operational stability of (FA0.83MA0.17Cs0.05)Pb(I0.85Br0.15)3 perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, precise regulation of the crystallization process...
Protein crystallization is an alternative to well-established but cost-intensive and time-consuming chromatography in biotechnological processes, with protein crystallization defined as an essential unit operation for isolating proteins, e.g., active...
Protein crystallization can function as an effective method for protein purification or formulation. Such an application requires a comprehensive understanding of the intermolecular protein–protein interactions that drive and stabilize protein crysta...
Molecular reactions occur through functional groups that drive covalent synthesis. These reactions often proceed via catalytic processes, leading to the formation of time crystals, which can be integrated into shared molecules or reactions—a co...
Despite the rapid efficiency advancement of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), non-radiative recombination at the buried interface between self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and perovskite remains a critical bottleneck, primarily due to interfacial defects...
Antisolvent crystallization is a separation technology that separates the solute from the solvent by the addition of another solvent, in which the solute is sparingly soluble. High yields are achieved by using higher antisolvent-to-aqueous ratios, bu...
Protein crystals are versatile nanostructured materials that can be readily engineered for applications in nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology. Despite their versatility, the small size of typical individual protein crystals (less than one cubic mm) p...
Controlling the heat transport and thermal conductivity through a material is of prime importance for thermoelectric applications. Phononic crystals, which are a nanostructured array of specially designed pores, can suppress heat transportation owing...
In this paper, we address the problem of antimicrobial resistance in the case of Helicobacter pylori with a crystal engineering approach. Two antibiotics of the fluoroquinolone class, namely, levofloxacin (LEV) and ciprofloxacin (CIP), have been co-c...
Top7 is a de novo designed protein whose amino acid sequence has no evolutional trace. Such a property makes Top7 a suitable scaffold for studying the pure nature of protein and protein engineering applications. To use Top7 as an engineering scaffold...
Sucrose phosphorylase (SPase) is a member of the glycoside hydrolase family 13, catalyzing the reversible phosphorolysis of sucrose to produce α–glucose–1–phosphate and exhibiting transglycosylation activity toward multiple su...
The development of efficient, low-cost electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is crucial for advancing sustainable hydrogen production through water splitting. This study presents a dual-engineering strategy to enhance the OER perfo...
Supramolecular coordination polymers with wavelike structures have been synthesized by self-assembly and their structures analyzed using the sine trigonometric function. Slow evaporation of a methylene chloride-methanol solution of a 1:1 molar mixtur...
X-ray crystallography remains a powerful method to gain atomistic insights into the catalytic and regulatory functions of RNA molecules. However, the technique requires the preparation of diffraction-quality crystals. This is often a resource- and ti...
FmocFF is a highly versatile gelator whose π–π-stacking fluorenyl group and hydrogen-bonded peptide backbone permit gelation in a wide spectrum of solvents, providing a rich scaffold for crystal engineering. This study explores the synerg...
Combining different drugs into a single crystal form is one of the current challenges in crystal engineering, with the number of reported multi-drug solid forms remaining limited. This paper builds upon an efficient approach to combining Active Pharm...
The development of appropriate materials that can make breakthroughs in tissue engineering has long been pursued by the scientific community. Several types of material have been long tested and re-designed for this purpose. At the same time, liquid c...
Benexate, a drug used clinically as a defensive type anti-ulcer agent, has poor solubility and a bitter taste. To improve its solubility, a crystal engineering approach was proposed with the formation of novel salts using an artificial sweetener as a...
9, 10-bis(3,5-dihydroxyphenyl)anthracene (BDHA) and 2,2′,4,4′-tetrahydroxybenzophenone (THB) are crystallized with bipyridine bases 4,4 ́-bipyridyl(bipy), 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane (bipy-eta), 1,2-di(4-pyridyl)ethylene (dipy-ete), 1,3-di(4-pyridyl)pro...
Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) has received enormous interest for photocatalysis owing to its narrow band gap of 2.17 eV, which is beneficial for visible-light absorption. In this work, we succeeded in synthesizing Cu2O nanocrystals with two morphologies, cube...
The σ- and π-hole interactions are used to define attractive forces involving elements of groups 12–18 of the periodic table acting as Lewis acids and any electron rich site (Lewis base, anion, and π-system). When the electrophilic...
5-nitrouracil is a polarizable molecule with a permanent electric dipole moment. Its molecular properties caught the attention of physicists working on nonlinear optics or optoelectronics, but the translation of the molecular assets to the crystallin...
The turbine section of aircraft engines (both commercial and military) is an example of one of the most hostile environments as the components in this section typically operate at upwards of 1650 °C in the presence of corrosive and oxidative gase...
Although the efficiency of small-size perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has reached an incredible level of 25.25%, there is still a substantial loss in performance when switching from small size devices to large-scale solar modules. The large efficiency...
Inteins are prevalent among extremophiles. Mini-inteins with robust splicing properties are of particular interest for biotechnological applications due to their small size. However, biochemical and structural characterization has still been limited...
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