Asymmetric patchy particle models have recently been shown to describe the crystallization of small globular proteins with near-quantitative accuracy. Here, we investigate how asymmetry in patch geometry and bond energy generally impacts the phase diagram and nucleation dynamics of this family of soft matter models. We find the role of the geometry asymmetry to be weak, but the energy asymmetry...

In this study, a simple hot-injection method to synthesize high-quality inorganic perovskite cesium lead iodide (CsPbI3) quantum-dots (QDs) was demonstrated. Adding CsPbI3 QDs into the organic methylamine triiodide (CH3NH3PbI3) form composite film, annealed by different temperatures, found be effectively enhanced crystallization. The intensity of preferred peak (110) MAPbI3 increasing size crys...

Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) of thermoplastic polymers is an additive manufacturing (AM) technique experiencing a remarkable growth in the recent years. Nowadays most widely used materials are polyamides (PA12, PA11…) but massively available LPBF-compatible polyolefin powders recently arrived on market. The need understanding crystallization process for these new essential and this was addres...

Steroid sex hormones play critical roles in the development of brain regions used for vocal learning. It has been suggested that puberty-induced increases in circulating testosterone (T) levels crystallize a bird's repertoire and inhibit future song learning. Previous studies show that early administration of T crystallizes song repertoires but have not addressed whether new songs can be learne...

Delivery systems with a solid dispersed phase can be produced in a melt emulsification process. For this, dispersed particles are melted, disrupted, and crystallized in a liquid continuous phase (melt emulsification). Different to bulk crystallization, droplets in oil-in-water emulsions show individual crystallization behavior, which differs from droplet to droplet. Therefore, emulsion droplets...

Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and poly(butylene succinate-co-butylene adipate) (PBSA) are crystalline/crystalline polymer blends with PVDF being the high-T(m) component and PBSA being the low-T(m) component, respectively. PVDF/PBSA blends are miscible as shown by the decrease of crystallization peak temperature and melting point temperature of each component with increasing the other compone...

Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is a semi–crystalline polymer that can be crystallized to different degrees heating from the amorphous state. Even when primary crystallization has been completed, secondary crystallization can take place with further annealing and modify the characteristics of the amorphous interlamellar phase. In this work we study the glass transition of highly crystallized...

The present study explores the temperature and time dependence of heterogeneous (HET) crystal nucleation in a lithium disilicate glass using the stochastic approach. In particular, a single lithium disilicate sample was repeatedly (284 runs) undercooled to 1173K in a PtRh-crucible and the crystallization onset time during an isothermal hold was detected in each run. The statistical distribution...

Experiments show high-speed spinning of many synthetic bers is accompanied by the partial crys-tallization of the initially amorphous melt. This crystallization is induced by some combination of the extensional ow, molecular orientation and extension, and temperature dependence. The crystallization of the material couples back to aaect the ber rheology, through a process of stress-hardening. Re...

Cholesterol crystallization in bile is affected by phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho) hydrophobicity. The aim of the present study was to determine whether PtdCho species modulate the metastable-labile limit and equilibrium solubility of cholesterol in the micellar phase of bile, thereby altering the distribution of cholesterol to biliary lipid carriers and thus influencing cholesterol crystallizatio...