While small organic molecules generally crystallize forming tightly packed lattices with little solvent content, proteins form air-sensitive high-solvent-content crystals. Here, the crystallization and full structure analysis of a novel recombinant 10 kDa protein corresponding to the C-terminal domain of a putative U32 peptidase are reported. The orthorhombic crystal contained only 24.5% solven...

We have grown the single crystals of LaAu2In4 and CeAu2In4 by high temperature solution method and report on the anisotropic magnetic behavior of CeAu2In4 . The compounds crystallize in an orthorhombic structure with space group Pnma. LaAu2In4 shows a Pauliparamagnetic behavior. CeAu2In4 do not order down to 1.8 K. The easy axis of magnetization for CeAu2In4 is along [010] direction. The magnet...

During crystallization screenings of commercially available hydrolytic enzymes, the new, hexagonal crystal form of CAL-B, has been discovered and hereby reported. The NAG molecules, which were closing the glycosylation site in the orthorhombic form, in hexagonal structure make the glycosylation site open. It is unknown whether the opening and closing of the glycosylation site by the 'lid' NAG m...

Orthorhombic paracetamol exhibits far better tabletability than the monoclinic form and its bulk crystallization from solution attracts much interest. In this study, temperature changes in supersaturated ethanolic solution have been recorded after seeding with orthorhombic crystals under different cooling temperatures (Tc) and agitation rates (AR). Average cooling rate (CR), time for maximum te...

The symmetry of the intermediate high-temperature phase of PbHfO3 has been determined unambiguously to be orthorhombic using a combination of high-resolution X-ray diffraction and birefringence imaging microscopy measurements of crystal plates. While lattice parameter measurements as a function of temperature in the intermediate phase are consistent with either orthorhombic or tetragonal symmet...

We study the order parameter for mixed-symmetry states involving a major dx2−y2 state and various minor s-wave states (s, sxy, and sx2+y2) for different filling and temperature for mixing angles 0 and π/2. We employ a two-dimensional tight-binding model incorporating second-neighbor hopping for tetragonal and orthorhombic lattice. There is mixing for the symmetric s state both on tetragonal and...

Improving the thermoelectric efficiency is one of the greatest challenges in materials science. The recent discovery of excellent thermoelectric performance in simple orthorhombic SnSe crystal offers new promise in this prospect [Zhao et al. Nature 508, 373 (2014)]. By calculating the thermoelectric properties of orthorhombic IV-VI compounds GeS,GeSe,SnS, and SnSe based on the first-principles ...

The small exciton binding energy of perovskite suggests that the long-lived photoluminescence and slow recovery of the ground state bleaching of the tetragonal phase at room temperature results primarily from the decay of free charges rather than the decay of the initially created excitons. Here we demonstrate the ground state bleaching recovery of the orthorhombic phase of methylammonium lead ...