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Crystals, Volume 10, Issue 8

2020 August - 87 articles

Cover Story: X-ray analyses of crystals of biological molecules have revolutionised our understanding of biological processes in humans and other organisms. Blundell’s personal history records the excitement of revealing the crystal structures of a protein hormone, insulin, in the 1960s, and of HIV protease, allowing rational design of AIDS antivirals in 1980s. It describes his involvement in preserving the historic centre of Oxford and in advancing racial diversity and gender balance. The use of crystals and structure-guided design in Astex Pharma in Cambridge led two cancer drugs into the market, and in academia, to finding drug leads for tuberculosis and leprosy―diseases that kill millions worldwide. Crystals and crystallography continue to contribute to drug design and provide a successful example of academia–industry collaboration. View this paper
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Articles (87)

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,654 Views
12 Pages

18 August 2020

Layer engineering with different layer numbers inside Aurivillius-type layered structure, similar to interface engineering in heterojunctions or superlattices, can give rise to excellent physical properties due to the correlated layer-stacked interfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,539 Views
13 Pages

18 August 2020

This research aims to study the utilization of waste from power plants, construction and demolition, and agriculture by varying the ratios of flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum, construction and demolition waste (CDW), and oil palm trunks (OPT) in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,842 Views
16 Pages

Fluorinated Tolane Dyads with Alkylene Linkage: Synthesis and Evaluation of Photophysical Characteristics

  • Shigeyuki Yamada,
  • Eiji Uto,
  • Tomohiro Agou,
  • Toshio Kubota and
  • Tsutomu Konno

18 August 2020

Light-emitting materials have received considerable attention because of their broad applications as substrates in bio-imaging and sensing components, light-emitting displays, and lighting devices. Herein, we developed fluorinated tolane and bistolan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,108 Views
15 Pages

18 August 2020

Eight phenyl imidazolinone derivatives were synthesized from N2-(2,4-dimethylphenyl)-N1-methyformamidine (DPMF) via scaffold-hopping method using the ring-closure approach. The prepared compounds were verified using 1H and 13C NMR and HRMS spectrosco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,502 Views
12 Pages

The Study of High Breakdown Voltage Vertical GaN-on-GaN p-i-n Diode with Modified Mesa Structure

  • Wen-Chieh Ho,
  • Yao-Hsing Liu,
  • Wen-Hsuan Wu,
  • Sung-Wen Huang Chen,
  • Jerry Tzou,
  • Hao-Chung Kuo and
  • Chia-Wei Sun

18 August 2020

In this paper, we fabricated Gallium Nitride (GaN) vertical p-i-n diodes grown on free-standing GaN (FS-GaN) substrates. This homogeneous epitaxy led to thicker GaN epi-layers grown on the FS-GaN substrate, but a high crystalline quality was maintain...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,219 Views
29 Pages

The Effects of Size and Shape Dispersity on the Phase Behavior of Nanomesogen Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

  • Fatima Hamade,
  • Sadat Kamal Amit,
  • Mackenzie B. Woods and
  • Virginia A. Davis

18 August 2020

Self-assembly of anisotropic nanomaterials into fluids is a key step in producing bulk, solid materials with controlled architecture and properties. In particular, the ordering of anisotropic nanomaterials in lyotropic liquid crystalline phases facil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,286 Views
7 Pages

Investigation of 1/f and Lorentzian Noise in TMAH-treated Normally-Off GaN MISFETs

  • Ki-Sik Im,
  • Mallem Siva Pratap Reddy,
  • Yeo Jin Choi,
  • Youngmin Hwang,
  • Sung Jin An and
  • Jea-Seung Roh

18 August 2020

A tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide (TMAH)-treated normally-off Gallum nitride (GaN) metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MISFET) was fabricated and characterized using low-frequency noise (LFN) measurements in order to find the conduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,948 Views
14 Pages

Multi-Approach Study Applied to Restoration Monitoring of a 16th Century Wooden Paste Sculpture

  • Auxiliadora Gómez-Morón,
  • Pilar Ortiz,
  • Rocio Ortiz,
  • Francesco Colao,
  • Roberta Fantoni,
  • Jacques Castaing and
  • Javier Becerra

17 August 2020

A multi-approach study has been designed to evaluate the mannerist-style masterpiece of the Christ of the Expiration (Museum Brotherhood, Seville, Spain), a polychrome wooden paste sculpture of the 16th Century that was restored in the Andalusian His...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,822 Views
22 Pages

16 August 2020

This paper deals with the blast-resistant performance of steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber-reinforced concrete (PVA-FRC) panels with a contact detonation test both experimentally and numerically. With 2% fiber v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,537 Views
8 Pages

Structural and Electric Properties of MnO2-Doped KNN-LT Lead-Free Piezoelectric Ceramics

  • Yunfeng Deng,
  • Junjun Wang,
  • Chunxiao Zhang,
  • Hui Ma,
  • Chungeng Bai,
  • Danqing Liu,
  • Fengmin Wu and
  • Bin Yang

15 August 2020

Structural, ferroelectric, dielectric, and piezoelectric properties of K0.5Na0.5NbO3-LiTaO3-xmol%MnO2 lead-free piezoelectric ceramics with 0.0 ≤ x ≤ 0.3 were studied. The ceramic samples were synthesized through the conventional solid-state re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,126 Views
10 Pages

15 August 2020

Struvite (MgNH4PO4·6H2O) calculi are formed as a result of urinary tract infections by Proteus mirabilis and other urease-producing bacteria. During struvite formation, the bacteria grow as biofilms, and thus crystals are formed in close association...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,437 Views
21 Pages

Optical and Geometrical Characterizations of Non-Linear Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Complexes

  • Hoda A. Ahmed,
  • Mohamed Hagar,
  • Omaima A. Alhaddad and
  • Ayman A. Zaki

14 August 2020

Nonlinear architecture liquid crystalline materials of supramolecular 1:1 H-bonded complexes (I/II and I/III) were prepared through a self-assembly intermolecular interaction between azopyridine (I) and 4-n-alkoxybenzoic acid (II) as well as 4-n-alko...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,624 Views
12 Pages

Broadband Asymmetric Propagation in Pillared Meta-Plates

  • Lin Chen,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Guohua Nie,
  • Yabin Jin,
  • Daniel Torrent and
  • Bahram Djafari-Rouhani

14 August 2020

The asymmetric propagation of mechanical energy across interfaces is a challenging problem with a wide range of applications. In this work, we present a novel structure presenting the asymmetric propagation of elastic waves in thin plates in a broadb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,204 Views
12 Pages

Growth of Interface Region in 2D Wet Foam

  • Atef F. I. Abdelkader,
  • Elmuez A. Dawi,
  • A. Karim Haj Ismail and
  • Samer H. Zyoud

14 August 2020

This study investigates the evolution of different grain boundaries in two-dimensional wet foam (2D) together with the width and the roughness of the interface. The foam around the boundaries coarsened and became disordered. The level of the disorder...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,375 Views
15 Pages

13 August 2020

Quantitative structure–property relationships (QSPRs) can be applied to metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) to allow for reasonable estimates to be made of the CH4 storage performance. QSPRs are available for CH4 storage of MOFs, but these we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,324 Views
20 Pages

Enhanced Performance of Concrete Composites Comprising Waste Metalised Polypropylene Fibres Exposed to Aggressive Environments

  • Rayed Alyousef,
  • Hossein Mohammadhosseini,
  • Fahed Alrshoudi,
  • Mahmood Md. Tahir,
  • Hisham Alabduljabbar and
  • Abdeliazim Mustafa Mohamed

12 August 2020

The utilisation of waste plastic and polymeric-based materials remains a significant option for clean production, waste minimisation, preserving the depletion of natural resources and decreasing the emission of greenhouse gases, thereby contributing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,882 Views
10 Pages

Spontaneous Growth of CaBi4Ti4O15 Piezoelectric Crystal Using Mixed Flux Agents

  • Mengdi Fan,
  • Guangda Wu,
  • Fapeng Yu,
  • Lili Li,
  • Yanlu Li,
  • Xiufeng Cheng and
  • Xian Zhao

12 August 2020

The bismuth layer-structured ferroelectrics (BLSFs) materials have potential for high-temperature piezoelectric applications. Among these piezoelectric materials, the CaBi4Ti4O15 (CBT) piezoelectric ceramic with a high decomposition temperature of ab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,903 Views
29 Pages

12 August 2020

Analysis of systems and structures from their cross-sectional images finds applications in many branches. Therefore, the question of content, quantity, and accuracy of information obtained from various techniques based on cross-sectional views of str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,682 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2020

This paper reports on an investigation of crystallographic texture of as-built and heat-treated Ti6Al4V (ELI) produced by direct metal laser sintering (DMLS). The texture analyses were conducted using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). The &bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,152 Views
20 Pages

11 August 2020

Twenty-four cannabinoids active against MRSA SA1199B and XU212 were optimized at WB97XD/6-31G(d,p), and several molecular descriptors were obtained. Using a multiple linear regression method, several mathematical models with statistical significance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,798 Views
8 Pages

Kinetics of Capability Aging in Ti-13Nb-13Zr Alloy

  • Myoungjae Lee,
  • In-Su Kim,
  • Young Hoon Moon,
  • Hyun Sik Yoon,
  • Chan Hee Park and
  • Taekyung Lee

11 August 2020

Metals for biomedical implant applications require a simultaneous achievement of high strength and low Young’s modulus from the viewpoints of mechanical properties. The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards suggest two typ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,392 Views
14 Pages

11 August 2020

This study used the solvent monoethylamine (MEA)/CaCl2/H2O to investigate CO2 absorption and CaCO3 crystallization in a bubble column scrubber. The variables explored were pH, gas flow rate, gas concentration, the liquid flow rate of the solution to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,198 Views
8 Pages

11 August 2020

Precipitation of the calcium phosphate hydroxyapatite, Ca5OH(PO4)3, is studied by simple mixing of reagent solutions and measurement of light scattering (turbidimetry) at six different wavelengths from 300 to 800 nm. Measured turbidities are analyzed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,231 Views
10 Pages

(Ba,K)(Zn,Mn)2Sb2: A New Type of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor

  • Shuang Yu,
  • Guoqiang Zhao,
  • Yi Peng,
  • Xiancheng Wang,
  • Qingqing Liu,
  • Runze Yu,
  • Sijia Zhang,
  • Jianfa Zhao,
  • Wenmin Li and
  • Changqing Jin
  • + 2 authors

10 August 2020

A series of polycrystalline samples of a new diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) (Ba,K)(Zn,Mn)2Sb2 has been synthesized and systematically studied. The parent phase is the so-called “Zintl compound” BaZn2Sb2, a week-degenerate semiconduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,498 Views
21 Pages

10 August 2020

A novel X-ray diffraction-based method and computer program X-TEX has been developed to determine the microstructure in individual texture components of polycrystalline, textured materials. Two different approaches are presented. In the first one, ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
9,717 Views
13 Pages

High-Temperature Mechanical Properties of IN718 Alloy: Comparison of Additive Manufactured and Wrought Samples

  • Trunal Bhujangrao,
  • Fernando Veiga,
  • Alfredo Suárez,
  • Edurne Iriondo and
  • Franck Girot Mata

9 August 2020

Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) is one of the most appropriate additive manufacturing techniques for producing large-scale metal components with a high deposition rate and low cost. Recently, the manufacture of nickel-based alloy (IN718) using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,874 Views
9 Pages

8 August 2020

Tilkerodeite, ideally Pd2HgSe3, is a new platinum-group selenide from the Eskaborner Stollen (Adit Eskaborn) at Tilkerode, Harz Mountains, Germany. Tilkerodeite crystals occur as euhedral inclusions in tiemannite or as extremely fine-grained lamellar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
82 Citations
15,497 Views
22 Pages

7 August 2020

In the past two decades, acoustic metamaterials have garnered much attention owing to their unique functional characteristics, which are difficult to find in naturally available materials. The acoustic metamaterials have demonstrated excellent acoust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,641 Views
10 Pages

7 August 2020

In this study, brazing AA6061 to Q235 steel using flame brazing was performed with 70.9 wt.% CsF-0.5 wt.% RbF-28.6 wt.% AlF3 fluxes doped with GaF3, ZnF2, Zn(BF4)2 and Ga2O3 nanoparticles, matched with a Zn-15Al filler metal, and the spreadability of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,419 Views
22 Pages

7 August 2020

Copper Sulfide (CuS) thin films were deposited onto a glass substrate using the Chemical Bath Deposition (CBD) technique. The chemical bath Precursors were made up of CuSO4, SC(NH2)2, and C4H6O6. Different parameters have been considered to specify t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,380 Views
14 Pages

7 August 2020

Benzylsulfanyl-triazolyl-indole scaffold was synthesized through coupling of 4-amino-5-(1H-indol-2-yl)-1,2,4-triazol-3(2H)-thione and benzyl bromide in EtOH under basic conditions (K2CO3). The benzylation direction was deduced from the 13C NMR signal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,432 Views
24 Pages

6 August 2020

This study is addressing the slotted ring resonator effect on the performance of the ultra-wide band (UWB) microstrip antenna. Two types of metamaterial with double slotted ring resonators (SRR), circular (C-SRR) and square (S-SRR), are studied and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,439 Views
9 Pages

Controlled Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite Nanomaterials Regulated by Different Phosphorus Sources

  • Mei-li Qi,
  • Sijia Qin,
  • Yin-chuan Wang,
  • Shengkun Yao,
  • Liang Qi,
  • Yanling Wu,
  • Yu-peng Lu and
  • Fengkun Cui

6 August 2020

The morphology, nanostructures, and crystallinity of hydroxyapatite (HA) materials have significant effects on their physicochemical properties and biomedical applications. However, the controllable synthesis of HA nanomaterials with various size and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,668 Views
28 Pages

6 August 2020

This exploration examines the nonlinear effect of radiation on magnet flow consisting of hybrid alloy nanoparticles in the way of stream-wise and cross flow. Many experimental, as well as theoretical explorations, demonstrated that the thermal conduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,490 Views
12 Pages

6 August 2020

The evolution of texture and grain orientations in a cold-rolled steel of BCC structure was simulated by a reaction stress (RS) model. The results show that cold-rolled texture could be assessed based on a RS model because the stress and strain are c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,104 Views
12 Pages

6 August 2020

Herein, the effect of nanocrystal percentage in bulk-ZnO varistors was studied. The structure of ZnO nanocrystals was examined using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). The XRD studies showed that the nan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,197 Views
8 Pages

6 August 2020

Cr3C2-Ni cermet is a kind of promising material especially for wear applications due to its excellent wear resistance. However, researches were mainly concentrated on the experiment condition of room temperature, besides high-temperature wear mechani...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,946 Views
25 Pages

5 August 2020

Chiral liquid crystal phases show fascinating structural and optical properties due to their inherent helical characteristics. Among the various chiral liquid crystal phases, the helical nanofilament phase, made of achiral bent-shaped molecules, has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,153 Views
27 Pages

5 August 2020

Over the past 60 years, the use of crystals to define structures of complexes using X-ray analysis has contributed to the discovery of new medicines in a very significant way. This has been in understanding not only small-molecule inhibitors of prote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,667 Views
15 Pages

New Mononuclear Complex of Europium(III) and Benzoic Acid: From Synthesis and Crystal Structure Solution to Luminescence Emission

  • Carlos Hernández-Fuentes,
  • Rosario Ruiz-Guerrero,
  • Angel de Jesús Morales-Ramírez,
  • Paulina Molina-Maldonado and
  • Dulce Y. Medina-Velazquez

4 August 2020

This study presents a general method which can be used for the synthesis of mononuclear complexes with europium(III) and organic ligands with carboxylic groups. It describes the procedure for preparing a new mononuclear coordination complex with euro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,205 Views
11 Pages

Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Solid State Transformation of 1,2-Bis[(1-methyl-1H-imidazole-2-yl)thio]ethane

  • Leo Štefan,
  • Dubravka Matković-Čalogović,
  • Darko Filić and
  • Miljenko Dumić

3 August 2020

The spontaneous S-alkylation of the thyreostatic drug methimazole (1-methyl-1,3-dihydro-1H-imidazole-2-thione, 1) with 1,2-dichloroethane at room temperature, in dark or light conditions, led to the formation of its related substance 1,2-bis[(1-methy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,133 Views
10 Pages

3 August 2020

A new 3D cellular automata-lattice Boltzmann method (CA-LBM) coupling model is proposed to simulate the formation of facet and facet dendrites in directional solidification. In this model, the CA method is used to simulate the crystal growth process...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,067 Views
43 Pages

Fluorescence Phenomena in Amyloid and Amyloidogenic Bionanostructures

  • B. Apter,
  • N. Lapshina,
  • H. Barhom,
  • B. Fainberg,
  • A. Handelman,
  • A. Accardo,
  • C. Diaferia,
  • P. Ginzburg,
  • G. Morelli and
  • G. Rosenman

3 August 2020

Nanoscale optical labeling is an advanced bioimaging tool. It is mostly based on fluorescence (FL) phenomena and enables the visualization of single biocells, bacteria, viruses, and biological tissues, providing monitoring of functional biosystems in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,526 Views
15 Pages

Nowotny Chimney Ladder Phases with Group 5 Metals: Crystal and Electronic Structure and Relations to the CrSi2 Structure Type

  • Maxim S. Likhanov,
  • Nikita V. Sytov,
  • Zheng Wei,
  • Evgeny V. Dikarev and
  • Andrei V. Shevelkov

3 August 2020

Nowotny chimney ladder (NCL) phases are intermetallic compounds formed by transition metals and metals of groups 13 and 14. This family can be expanded by combining two p-elements from different groups with those transition metals, for which the corr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,447 Views
16 Pages

Halide Ion Embraces in Tris(2,2′-bipyridine)metal Complexes

  • Edwin C. Constable and
  • Catherine E. Housecroft

3 August 2020

An analysis of the [M(bpy)3]n+ (bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine) complexes with halide counterions in the Cambridge Structural Database reveals a common structural motif in two thirds of the compounds. This interaction involves the formation of 12 short C–H…X...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,972 Views
26 Pages

3 August 2020

Hydrocalumite is a layered double hydroxide (LDH) that is finding increased application in numerous scientific fields. Typically, this material is produced through environmentally polluting methods such as co-precipitation, sol-gel synthesis and urea...

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