An electric field was applied to a conductive layer to induce Joule heating in order to generate the intense heat needed to carry out the crystallization of amorphous silicon. Complete crystallization was observed via Joule heating under typical processing conditions. Crystallization was accomplished throughout the sample within the range of microseconds of the heating, thus demonstrating the p...

Large-scale screening of hundreds or even thousands of crystallization conditions while with low sample consumption is in urgent need, in current structural biology research. Here we describe a fully-automated droplet robot for nanoliter-scale crystallization screening that combines the advantages of both automated robotics technique for protein crystallization screening and the droplet-based m...

Evidence from abyssal peridotites suggests that significant chemical reaction with peridotite can occur during the early stages of cooling and crystallization of mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) magmas. We evaluate the hypothesis that reactive crystallization (crystallization influenced by such melt^rock reaction) could cause magma compositions to evolve along a different chemical trajectory than ...

The asymmetric unit of the title hydrate, 2[Sn(H(2)O)(2)(OH)(2)Br(6)]·7H(2)O, comprises two [Br(3)(H(2)O)Sn(μ-OH)(2)SnBr(3)(OH(2))] units, but three independent mol-ecules as two of these are disposed about inversion centres, and seven water mol-ecules. In common with the monoclinic polymorph [Howie et al. (2005 ▶). Inorg. Chim. Acta, 358, 3283-3286], each of the dinuclear species features a ce...

When starting a protein-crystallization project, scientists are faced with several unknowns. Amongst them are these questions: (i) is the purity of the starting material sufficient? and (ii) which type of crystallization experiment is the most promising to conduct? The difficulty in purifying active membrane-protein samples for crystallization trials and the high costs associated with producing...

Elucidating and clarifying the function of membrane proteins ultimately requires atomic resolution structures as determined most commonly by X-ray crystallography. Many high impact membrane protein structures have resulted from advanced techniques such as in meso crystallization that present technical difficulties for the set-up and scale-out of high-throughput crystallization experiments. In p...

The molecular-level details of crystallization remain unclear for many systems. Previous work has speculated on the phenomenological similarities between molecular crystallization and protein folding. Here we demonstrate that molecular crystallization can involve funnel-shaped potential energy landscapes through a detailed analysis of mixed gas hydrate nucleation, a prototypical multicomponent ...

A database application has been developed for the collection of crystallographic information. This database (the BDP) has been populated with the information found in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The tool has been used to store crystallization data parsed out of the PDB and these data may be used to extend the crystallization information found in the Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Dat...

A new type of polysaccharide (hemicellulose) nanocrystal, bearing the shape an anisotropic nanoflake, emerged from a dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) dispersion wood-based xylan through heat-induced crystallization. The dimensions these nanocrystals were controlled by crystallization conditions. Sharp signals in solid-state NMR indicated well-ordered crystal structure. unit cell is constituted two asy...

The high-mobility group protein (HMO2) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a component of the chromatin-remodelling complex INO80, which is involved in double-strand break (DSB) repair. HMO2 can also bind DNA to protect it from exonucleolytic cleavage. Nevertheless, little structural information is available regarding these functions of HMO2. Since determination of three-dimensional structure is a p...