Low-temperature structures of the lithium manganese spinels were determined using TOF neutron Rietveld analysis. The spinels LiMn2O4 with different values, (0.016, 0.040, and 0.132) showed the cubic-orthorhombic phase transitions, and the lattice distortion decreased with decreasing . Although no anomaly corresponding to the cubic-orthorhombic phase transition was observed in the DSC curve for ...

Measurements of the diffuse X-ray scattering intensity are performed from the (100), (010) and (001) planes in the AgInS2 ternary compound with the orthorhombic wurtzite-type structure. From these data all nine elastic moduli Cik as well as the phase velocities of the elastic waves along different crystallographic directions for longitudinal and transverse polarizations are found. A comparative...

Single-stranded DNA-binding proteins play an important role in DNA replication, repair and recombination. The protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MtSSB) is a tetramer with 164 amino-acid residues in each subunit. The protein readily crystallizes in space group P3(1)21 (or P3(2)21) at pH 7.4 under appropriate conditions. Under different conditions, but at the same pH, orthorhombic crystals ...

The three-dimensional structure of an immunoglobulin light chain dimer (Mcg) crystallized in deionized water (orthorhombic form) was determined at 2.0 A resolution by phase extension and crystallographic refinement. This structure was refined side-by-side with that of the same molecule crystallized in ammonium sulfate (trigonal form). The dimer adopted markedly different structures in the two s...

A pressure-induced phase transition of Mg₂Sr intermetallics from the low-pressure C14-type phase to an orthorhombic phase (space group Cmcm, Z = 4) at a high pressure of 21.0 GPa was firstly predicted using first-principles calculations combined with unbiased swarm structure searching techniques. The phase transition was identified as a first-order nature with a volume drop of 4.7%, driven by t...

the structure of n,n'-bis(2-hydroxybenzylidene)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediamine, c19h22n2o2, has been studied at low temperature (120k) by means of single-crystal x-ray diffraction. solving the structure shows an orthorhombic unit cell, with p212121 space group, z = 4, a = 6.1046 (4) å, b = 15.8349 (11)å, c = 17.2898 (12) å and v = 1671.3 (2) å3. there are two relatively strong hydrogen bonds (...

Using high resolution x-ray diffraction (XRD) on high purity powders, we resolved the structure and ab symmetry of the intriguing compound Sr2VO4 from room temperature down to 20 K to an unprecedented level of accuracy. Upon cooling, this set of data unambiguously reveals a second-order phase transition lowering the symmetry from tetragonal to orthorhombic at a temperature Tc2 = 136 K. The obse...