Crystals, Volume 8, Issue 10

Tantalum-doped ZnO structures (ZnO:Ta) were synthesized, and some of their characteristics were studied. ZnO material was deposited on silicon substrates by using a hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD) reactor. The raw materials were a pell...

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a promising material for combining with magneto-optic (MO) materials because it can propagate stable exciton-polaritons, with velocities considerably lower than that of photons in a vacuum. This study investigated the influence of...

Light sources tend to affect images captured in any automatic optical inspection (AOI) system. In this study, the effectiveness of metal-halide lamps, quartz-halogen lamps, and LEDs as the light sources in AOI systems for the detection of the third a...

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Cocrystal formation is a strategy used to modify the solid-state properties of a given molecule. In this study, a new cocrystal assembled by 1,4-Diiodotetrafluorobenzene (1,4-DITFB) and a pyrene derivative, 1-acetyl-3-phenyl-5-(1-pyrenyl)-pyrazoline...

Colonization of Campylobacter concisus in the gastrointestinal tract can lead to the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Plasmid-encoded C. concisus-secreted protein 1 (Csep1^p) was recently identified as a putative pathogenicity marker a...

Noncovalent interactions in the single crystal of 3,6-Cl₂-closo-1,2-P₂B₁₀H₈ and in the crystal of closo-1,7-P₂B₁₀Cl₁₀•toluene were analyzed by means of quantum chemical computations. The crystal packing in the second crystal was dominated by num...

We report the synthesis and characterization of the first example of an organic dye, PP1, for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) bearing a phosphonic acid anchoring group. PP1 is structurally related to the benchmarking dye, P1, which possesses...

A multi-step annealing method was successfully applied to inclusions reduction and resistivity improvement of CdMnTe:In (CMT:In) single crystals with high resistivity, including a Cd atmosphere annealing step followed by a Te atmosphere annealing ste...

The IMAGINE and MaNDi instruments, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory High Flux Isotope Reactor and Spallation Neutron Source, respectively, are powerful tools for determining the positions of hydrogen atoms in biological macromolecules and the...

The potential applications of quasicrystals (QCs) in automotive and aerospace industries requires the investigation of their fracture and failure mechanisms under dynamic loading conditions. In this study, Al–Cr–Fe powders were consolidated into pell...

We report the results of an analysis of the functional capabilities of the KTP crystal and its isomorphs for nonlinear-optical frequency conversion of all types of interactions in the transparency range of the crystal. The possibility of implementing...

The present study envisages the preparation of chromium substituted Nickel ferrite NiCr_xFe_2−xO₄ (x = 0~1.0) powders by a sol-gel auto-combustion method. X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) showed that the specimens with x > 0.2 exhibited a sing...

The membranes of a pillared-layer structure Metal-Organic Framework (MOF), [Ni(HBTC)(4,4′-bipy)] (HBTC = 1,3,5-Benzenetricarboxylic acid, 4,4′-bipy = 4,4′-bipyridine), have been in situ fabricated on Nickel foam substrate. The orien...

Hybrid ion-pair crystals involving hexadentate [Fe(III)(3-OMesal₂-trien)]⁺ spin-crossover (SCO) cationic complexes and anionic gold complexes [Au(dmit)₂]⁻ (1) (dmit = 4,5-dithiolato-1,3-dithiole-2-thione) and [Au(dddt)₂]⁻ (2) (dddt = 5,6-...

A new nonlinear optical crystals fluoride carbonate, Na₄Yb(CO₃)₃F, has been synthesized by mild hydrothermal method. The Na₄Yb(CO₃)₃F crystallizes in the noncentrosymmetric space group Cc (no. 9) with the lattice parameters a = 8.018(3), b = 15.929(5...

The growth of MnSn₂ phase during the solidification process of Sn-Mn alloy was crystallographically investigated. The results show that the non-faced spherical caps of the MnSn₂ crystals follow the continuous growth mechanism to grow rapidly along th...

Microwave energy has been in use for many applications for more than 50 years, from communication, food processing, and wood drying to chemical reactions and medical therapy. The areas, where microwave technology is applied, include drying, calcinati...

Two polymorphs of the drug compound metergoline (C₂₅H₂₉N₃O₂) were investigated in detail by solid-state NMR measurements. The results have been analysed by an advanced procedure, which uses experimental input together with the results of quantum chem...

Magnetic films with a heavy metal layer show strong interfacial interaction of spin-orbit. Spin-orbit interaction is one of the key technologies for spintronics. In this paper, we measured magneto-optical Kerr spectra of Pt/TbCo hetero-structure film...

This work explores the effect of lattice solvent on the observed solid-state spin-transition of a previously reported dinuclear Fe(II) triple helicate series 1–3 of the general form [Fe^II₂L₃](BF₄)₄(CH₃CN)_n, where L is the Schiff base condensati...

The coordination polymer, namely, [Cd(H₂L)(nobda)]_n (1) was prepared by the reaction of Cd(NO₃)₂·4H₂O with 4-amino-1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid (H₂nobda) and 1,4-di(1H-imidazol-4-yl)benzene (H₂L), and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diff...

Zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8) membranes have attracted tremendous interest for their high-resolution kinetic separation of propylene/propane mixtures. Current polycrystalline ZIF-8 membranes are supported mostly on planar ceramic substrates...

A single crystal X-ray diffraction study of the new compound [Rb([2.2.2]crypt)]₂[Rb([18]crown−6)][HGe₉]·4NH₃ revealed the presence of the first protonated nine-atom germanide cluster [HGe₉]³⁻. It forms from Rb₄Ge₉ in liquid ammonia...

Graphene is a kind of typical two-dimensional material consisting of pure carbon element. The unique material shows many interesting properties which are dependent on crystallographic orientations. Therefore, it is critical to determine their crystal...

Composite materials that combine the unique properties of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can give rise to novel applications. Here, ZIF-8/CNT composites were successfully prepared with and without the addition of a...

Three defect pyrochlores KNbWO₆·xH₂O, KNbTeO₆ and KSbWO₆ were synthesized by solid state reaction at 750 °C, from stoichiometric mixtures of K₂C₂O₄, Sb₂O₃, Nb₂O₅, WO₃ and 20% excess TeO₂. A neutron powder diffraction (NPD) data analysis al...

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with a mortality rate that has been forecasted to rise in the next decade. This is especially worrying for people with triple-negative BC (TNBC), because of its unresponsiveness to curr...

The projection method for constructing quasiperiodic tilings from a higher dimensional lattice provides a useful context for computing a quasicrystal’s vertex configurations, frequencies, and empires (forced tiles). We review the projection met...

We present a Molecular Dynamics study of mixtures of charged Gay-Berne (GB) ellipsoids and spherical Lennard-Jones (LJ) particles as models of ionic liquids and ionic liquid crystals. The GB system is highly anisotropic (GB(4.4,20.0,1,1)) and we obse...