Photoinduced threshold switching processes that lead to bistability and the formation of metastable phases in photoinduced phase transition of VO2 are elucidated through ultrafast electron diffraction and diffusive scattering techniques with varying excitation wavelengths. We uncover two distinct regimes of the dynamical phase change: a nearly instantaneous crossover into an intermediate state ...

At room temperature, the m-Nitrophenol (m-NPH) appears in two polymorphic structures: orthorhombic and monoclinic forms. In the present work, we shall focus on the monoclinic form of this compound which has a centrosymmetric structure with the space group P21/n. The molecular dipole moment has been estimated experimentally. High resolution single crystal diffraction experiment was performed at ...

A new photoactive monoclinic polymorph (gamma-form) of 6-(2',4'-dinitrobenzyl)-2,2'-bipyridine was obtained from an acetone-methanol solution. The crystal structure was compared with those of two polymorphs reported previously (photoactive orthorhombic alpha-form and photoinactive monoclinic beta-form) and with structures of related nitrobenzylpyridines to explain the relation between the struc...

Wadsleyite (β-(Mg,Fe)2SiO4) is known to accept variable amounts of H, and may be an important reservoir of H in the transition zone of the mantle. The crystal structure of Fo94.6 hydrous wadsleyite (Mg1.730Fe0.098 Al0.008Si0.991H0.355O4) synthesized at 1400 oC and 17GPa has been refined in space group I2/m from 1784 measured intensities of which 830 were unique, and of these, 650 were of intens...

In an attempt to grow 8-hy-droxy-quinoline-acetamino-phen co-crystals from equimolar amounts of conformers in a chloro-form-ethanol solvent mixture at room temperature, the title compound, C9H7NO, was obtained. The mol-ecule is planar, with the hy-droxy H atom forming an intra-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bond. In the crystal, mol-ecules form centrosymmetric dimers via two O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds. Thu...

in the current study, synthesis and characterization of a new nano-structured zirconium(iv)-minoxidil complex (1), where minoxidil, (c9h15n5o; 6-(1-piperidinyl)-2,4-pyrimidinediamine 3-oxide), have been investigated in two different solvents. the compound 1 has been synthesized by sonochemical method in the presence of methanol and monoethylene glycol (meg) as solvents and characterized by scan...