Chiral Crystal Growth under Grinding

Chiral Crystal Growth under Grinding

To study the establishment of homochirality observed in the crystal growth experiment of chiral molecules from a solution under grinding, we extend the lattice gas model of crystal growth as follows. A lattice site can be occupied by a chiral molecule in R or S form, or can be empty. Molecules form homoclusters by nearest neighbor bonds. They change their chirality if they are isolated monomers...

Crystal Growth under Bridge Foundations

A high-speed railway viaduct experienced a sustained heave at high rates after its construction. The pillars of the bridge are founded on an Eocene hard anhydritic-gypsiferous claystone by means of massive foundations. Field investigations identified an active layer below the piles’ tips where expansions occur as a result of gypsum crystal growth in discontinuities from supersaturated aqueous s...

Homochirality beyond grinding: deracemizing chiral crystals by temperature gradient under boiling.

A single-chirality solid phase can be obtained in boiling solutions containing a racemic mixture of left- and right-handed enantiomorphous crystals due to dissolution-crystallization cycles induced by a temperature gradient. This phenomenon provides further insights into asymmetric amplification mechanisms under presumably prebiotic conditions.

Protein Crystal Growth Under High Pressure

Optimizing an Industrial Grinding Operation Under Uncertainty

Handling uncertainties for parameters in nonlinear constraints using chance constrained programming (CCP) is not as straight forward as its linear counterparts. A simulation based CCP approach which can be thought as an alternative to handle such a situation, has been adopted in this work while solving a multi-objective optimization problem of an industrial grinding operation under various para...