Various spherulites or spherulitic crystals are widely encountered in polymeric materials when crystallized from viscous melts or concentrated solutions. However, the microstructures and growth processes are quite complicated and remain unclear and, thus, the formation mechanisms are rather elusive. Here, diverse kinds of spherulitic growths and patterns of typical polyesters via evaporative cr...

Crystallization chaperones have been used to facilitate the crystallization of challenging proteins. Even though the maltose-binding protein (MBP) is one of the most commonly used crystallization chaperones, the design of optimal expression constructs for crystallization of MBP fusion proteins remains a challenge. To increase the success rate of MBP-facilitated crystallization, a series of expr...

We present a real-time study of protein crystallization of bovine β-lactoglobulin in the presence of CdCl(2) using small-angle X-ray scattering and optical microscopy. From observing the crystallization kinetics, we propose the following multistep crystallization mechanism that is consistent with our data. In the first step, an intermediate phase is formed, followed by the nucleation of crystal...

transparent glasses in a system of li2o-mgo-sio2-al2o3-fchemical constituents were prepared by melt quenching method. in the fabrication of nanocrystal glass-ceramics, controlled nucleation and subsequent crystal growth were necessary to avoid loss of transparency. it was therefore important to understand thermal properties and crystallization kinetics of the glass ceramics. the crystallization...

Effects of thermal transitions (glass transition, crystallization), water, and glycerol on invertase activity in freeze-dried carbohydrate systems were investigated. Efficacy of κ-carrageenan to delay sugar crystallization in freeze-dried carbohydrate systems was also studied. Water sorption properties and glass transition temperatures, Tg, were determined for freeze-dried carbohydrate-sucrose ...

Important progress has been made in recent years toward developing a molecular-level understanding of protein phase behavior in terms of the osmotic second virial coefficient, a thermodynamic parameter that characterizes pairwise protein interactions. Yet there has been little practical application of this knowledge to the field of protein crystallization, largely because of the difficult and t...

a series of experiments were designed to utilize the taguchi method for investigating the effects of important parameters on the synthesis of nax zeolite and to find the best conditions of synthesis. an l9 orthogonal design of taguchi approach was applied to design experiments consisting of 9 trails. the effect of molar composition, including sio2/al2o3 and na2o/al2o3 ratios, and the crystalliz...

Self-standing highly crystallized hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) mono-, bi- and few-layers have been obtained for the first time via the Polymer Derived Ceramics (PDCs) route by adding lithium nitride (Li₃N) micropowders to liquid-state polyborazylene (PBN). Incorporation of Li₃N as a crystallization promoter allows the onset of crystallization of h-BN at a lower temperature (1200 °C) than unde...

The crystallization of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECYD) by thermal annealing is of great interest for display and silicon-on-insulator (SOl) technologies. For large area electronics, there has been considerable interest to integrate both a-Si:H TFTs, for low leakage in the OFF state, and poly-Si TFTs, for high drive currents,...