The lipidic cubic mesophase has been used to crystallize important membrane proteins for high-resolution structure determination. To date, however, no integral membrane enzymes have yielded to this method, the in meso. For a crystal structure to be meaningful the target protein must be functional. Using the in meso method with a membrane enzyme requires that the protein is active in the mesopha...

Assembly of mesostructured silica using Pluronic P123 triblock copolymer (EO(20)-PO(70)-EO(20)) and n-butanol mixture is a facile synthesis route to the MCM-48-like ordered large mesoporous silicas with the cubic Iad mesostructure. The cubic phase domain is remarkably extended by controlling the amounts of butanol and silica source correspondingly. The extended phase domain allows synthesis of ...

Structures of core nanocrystals of physiological (horse spleen, human liver, and brain) and pathological human brain of patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) ferritin molecules were determined using electron nanodiffraction and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The poly-phasic structure of the ferritin cores is confirmed. There are signi...

We investigated structural changes, phase diagram, and vibrational properties of hydrogen hydrate in filled-ice phase C(2) by using first principles molecular dynamics simulation. It was found that the experimentally reported "cubic" structure is unstable at low temperature and/or high pressure: The "cubic" structure reflects the symmetry at high (room) temperature where the hydrogen bond netwo...

fept nanoparticles with thermally stable room-temperature ferromagnetism are investigated. the monodisperse nanoparticles are prepared by chemical synthesis and a salt-matrix annealing technique. structural and magnetic characterizations confirm the phase transition from the disordered face-centered cubic structure. in this paper, 3 nm fept nanoparticles are first synthesized by superhydride re...

A novel extension of the cubic Bézier curve with two shape parameters is presented in this work. The proposed curve is still a cubic polynomial model, which has simpler structure than other similar models. The proposed curve has the same properties with the usual cubic Bézier curve and its shape can be adjusted by altering values of the two shape parameters while the control points are fixed. W...

A series of neutral cubic nickel(II)-imidazolate Ni8L12X4 cages were prepared by rational choices of substituents and anions with solvothermal subcomponent self-assembly technology. Both substituents and halide anions play a critical role in the formation and stabilization of cubic cages. Changing one of the factors in the reaction will switch the final structure to a Ni14L24 rhombic dodecahedr...

Let G be a connected k–regular bipartite graph with bipartition V (G) = X ∪Y and adjacency matrix A. We say G is det–extremal if per(A) = |det(A)|. Det–extremal k–regular bipartite graphs exist only for k = 2 or 3. McCuaig has characterized the det–extremal 3–connected cubic bipartite graphs. We extend McCuaig’s result by determining the structure of det–extremal cubic bipartite graphs of conne...

Three-dimensional cubic ordered mesoporous carbons with tunable pore sizes have been synthesized by using cubic Ia3d mesoporous KIT-6 silica as the hard template and boric acid as the pore expanding agent. The prepared ordered mesoporous carbons were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and nitrogen adsorption-desorption anal...

The phase stability, oxygen stoichiometry and expansion properties of SrCo0.8Fe0.2O3−δ (SCF) were determined by in situ neutron diffraction between 873 and 1173 K and oxygen partial pressures of 5×10 to 1 atm. At a pO2 of 1 atm, SCF adopts a cubic perovskite structure, space group Pm3̄m, across the whole temperature range investigated. At a pO2 of 10 −1 atm, a two-phase region exists below 922 K...