Small crystals are often poor crystals – why?

Radiationless Cold Fusion: Why Small "Crystals" Are Better, Ncell Requirement, and Energy Transfer to Lattice

The Ion Band State Theory describes Fleischmann and Pons cold fusion phenomena. It is based on application of solid state band theory physics, many-body physics, and the known quantum behavior of hydrogen in metals. Important assumptions are that charge neutrality exists in each unit cell and that the reactive quantum states, which are stationary Bloch states, are describable as symmetric sums ...

Rhombellanic Crystals and Quasicrystals

Design of some crystal and quasicrystal networks, based on rhombellane tiling,is presented. [1,1,1]Propellane,is a synthesized organic molecule; its hydrogenated form, the bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane,may be represented by the complete bipartite graph K2,3 which is the smallest rhombellane. Topology of translational and radial structures involving rhombellanes is described in terms of vertex symbol, c...

Small crystals, fast dynamics and noisy data are indeed beautiful

Structural biology at hard X-ray free-electron lasers is evolving rapidly beyond the experimental styles long established at storage ring sources. The comprehensive review by John Spence [IUCrJ (2017), 4, 322-339] provides magisterial oversight of recent developments.

Why Are Poor Countries Poor ?

We attempt to explain why standard explanations of the poverty of nations are unsatisfactory. We first argue that human capital is low in poor countries because its production has increasing returns with respect to life expectancy. We then show that the reason why capital does not flow to poor countries (the Lucas paradox) can readily be explained once market prices rather than PPP prices are u...

Why animal studies are often poor predictors of human reactions to exposure.