Deliquescence is a thermodynamic property of water-soluble crystalline ingredients. A deliquescent crystal exhibits this first-order solid-to-solution phase transformation when the environmental humidity reaches its deliquescence relative (RH0), with kinetics increasing as RH further increases. The RH0s many food ingredients fall within range conditions in which foods are produced and stored. H...

To date, crystallization studies conducted in space laboratories, which are prohibitively costly and unsuitable to most research have shown the valuable effects of microgravity during crystal growth morphogenesis. Herein, an easy highly efficient method is achieve space-like experimentation conditions on Earth employing custom-made microfluidic devices fabricate 2D porous crystalline molecular ...

The properties and structure of de Vries materials in new series of organosiloxane liquid crystalline materials has been studied using electrooptical measurements and UV/V is spectroscopy. The compounds from this series show different strength of the de Vries phase. Two independent parameters to characterize de Vries properties were introduced. The structure-properties relations of these materi...

A review of flow and texture modeling of liquid crystalline materials with emphasis on carbonaceous mesophases is presented. Two models of nematodynamics are presented and discussed in terms of their ability to resolve time and length scales likely to arise in typical rheological and processing flows. Defect physics and rheophysics are integrated with nematodynamics and specific mechanisms of d...

Supported Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) with a high specific surface area are of great interest for applications in gas storage, separation, sensing, and catalysis. In the present work we report the synthesis of a novel composite architecture of MOF materials supported on a flexible mat of electrospun nanofibers. The system, based on three-dimensional interwoven nanofibers, was designed by us...

Crystalline, yet smooth, sphere-like morphologies of small molecular compounds are desirable in a wide range of applications but are very challenging to obtain using common growth techniques, where either amorphous films or faceted crystallites are the norm. Here we show solvent-free, guard flow-assisted organic vapour jet printing of non-faceted, crystalline microspheroids of archetypal small ...

FIG.1 Composition diagram showing natural and synthetic crystalline materials (dark blue circles) based on LiO1/2, LiN1/3, PO5/2, and PN5/3 starting materials. The light blue circles indicate compositions of LiPON materials reported in the literature. The black squares indicate stable idealized phosphate chain structures having the composition of ηLi2PO2N + (1-η)LiPO3 studied in this work. Intr...

Introduction. Processes occurring within proto-planetary disks partly convert amorphous interstellar silicate grains into crystalline grains [e.g. 1,2]. The details of the transformation mechanism(s) and the subsequent transport of the crystalline grains from the hot inner part of the disk to cooler regions are poorly constrained [3]. Having formed in the coldest, most distant region of the Sol...