Mesocrystals: structural and morphogenetic aspects

Mesocrystals: structural and morphogenetic aspects.

Mesocrystals are a fascinating class of crystalline nanostructured materials since they combine the properties of nanoparticles with order on the microscopic or even macroscopic length scale. This tutorial review deals with the structural aspects of mesocrystals as well as their formation mechanisms known so far. The goal is to reach an understanding about what is special about the structuratio...

Mesocrystals and Nonclassical Crystallization

Mesocrystals : Applications and potential

Keywords: Mesocrystal Non-classical crystallization Nanoparticle Energy conversion Photocatalysis Lithium ion battery Mesocrystals are superstructures of nanoparticles with mutual order and can be intermediates in a non classical particle mediated crystallization reaction. Mesocrystals have various potential applications as functional mate rials due to their unique combination of nanoparticle p...

Mesocrystals and Nonclassical Crystallization

This chapter presents a history of observations that crystallization can go well beyond the simple ‘expected’ behaviour found in the salt cellar or when you buy a chemical. Biomorphs, crystal gardens, ‘crystal souls’, but also the remarkable pattern and structures of biominerals made researchers think that there is something beyond the concept of the bare three-dimensional regularity of molecul...

The neural induction process; its morphogenetic aspects.

This posthumous review of early embryonic inductions concludes: 1) the amphibian egg has only two distinct components, animal and vegetal. Interactions at their mutual boundary forms meso-endoderm. This is "meso-endoderm induction", not just "mesoderm induction". 2) The dorso-ventral polarity of the yolk mass implies a dorsally situated inducing centre. 3) Accumulation of cells into one, two, t...