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Chemistry World February 3, 2011 Ben Merison |
The mystery of the disappearing crystals UK chemists have analysed a fifty year old sample to find out why and say that it's down to impurities. This takes researchers a step closer to understanding why certain pharmaceutical drugs lose their therapeutic effect.  |
Chemistry World March 27, 2013 Akshat Rathi |
Molecular cages to end crystallization nightmare X-ray crystallography has shaped modern chemistry. It is a powerful tool for molecular structural analysis. But it suffers from one big drawback: it can only analyze materials that form well-defined crystals. This may now be about to change.  |
Chemistry World September 18, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Caffeine crystals with an elastic bent Indian chemists have discovered a highly elastic but crystalline material made from caffeine. The crystals maintain their elasticity down to -100 C.  |
Chemistry World October 28, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Crystal within a crystal Colleagues at the University of Strasbourg used a molecular tectonics strategy to prepare the crystals.  |
Chemistry World October 26, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Proton NMR Spots Shape-Shifting Tablets UK scientists have extended the bounds of solid-state NMR to quickly solve a problem plaguing the pharmaceutical industry: how to spot unwanted crystal packing forms in a drug tablet.  |
Chemistry World November 30, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Crystal Clear Structure Prediction One team of researchers has hit the jackpot by correctly predicting the crystal structures of four organic molecules in a competition organized by the University of Cambridge.  |
Chemistry World May 15, 2012 Harriet Brewerton |
Chiral Confusion Scientists in Israel have shown that non-biological chiral crystals are much more abundant than previously thought and their findings could clear up a possible confusion over the term 'chiral'.  |
Chemistry World June 2010 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball welcomes the age of automated chemical crystallography  |
Chemistry World September 2, 2009 Nina Notman |
Designing 3D DNA crystals US scientists have found that DNA triangles can be designed to self-assemble into three dimensional, macro-sized crystals.  |
Chemistry World June 18, 2014 Michael Parkin |
Separation by levitation A team in the US has shown that enantiopure and racemic crystals can be separated by magnetic levitation.  |
Technology Research News November 19, 2003 |
Liquid Crystal Tunes Fiber Researchers have combined photonic crystal and liquid crystal to make an optical fiber whose properties can change according to temperature. The combination allows the researchers to change the properties of the light inside the fiber.  |
Chemistry World October 31, 2014 |
X marks the structure From single crystals to powders and even proteins, there's a diffractometer for every structure.  |
Chemistry World August 9, 2013 Daniel Johnson |
Mystery of jumping crystals solved The riddle of why a certain type of crystal leaps more than 10,000 times its length when exposed to light may have been solved. The crystals' rapid movement is a result of stresses generated in the crystal when light induces a structural change within it.  |
Chemistry World March 20, 2014 James Urquhart |
Nanoparticle composites make colorful magnetic crystals Incorporating nanoparticles into single crystal materials can imbue them with new properties, such as color and magnetism, thanks to gel crystallization techniques developed independently by UK and Chinese research groups.  |
Chemistry World January 11, 2008 Victoria Gill |
Fish Scales Hold Dazzling Secret Scientists in Israel have discovered the surprising secrets of the specialized crystals in fish skin that allow them to shimmer.  |
Chemistry World December 20, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Year-long celebration to raise crystallography's profile The International Union of Crystallographers has announced details of the activities planned to mark the International Year of Crystallography in 2014.  |
Chemistry World October 1, 2013 Philip Ball |
Crystallography 101 What is perhaps most striking about x-ray crystallography is that in 100 years of existence its significance has only increased.  |
Chemistry World February 18, 2014 Alan Dronsfield |
Early days of x-ray crystallography This book by Andre Authier can be enjoyed on two levels.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley |
Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia.  |
Chemistry World June 24, 2015 Victoria Richards |
Confronting the crystalline sponge A research group in the US has successfully simplified a crystallographic technique that scientists had struggled to get to grips with.  |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 |
Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between.  |
Chemistry World May 24, 2012 Jon Evans |
Can magma crystals predict eruptions? Mineral crystals blasted out from volcanoes can provide a window into the powerful processes going on inside those volcanoes, say UK and German earth scientists.  |
Chemistry World April 28, 2014 Hamish Crawford |
Crystal structures unpacked A researcher in the UK has shed new light on which interactions are important in the packing of crystal structures.  |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 |
Magnets tune photonic crystal Researchers from Fudan University in China have found that it is possible to use a magnetic field to quickly shift or block certain frequencies of electromagnetic signals passing through photonic crystals made from semiconductor material.  |
Chemistry World April 8, 2013 Sarah Houlton |
India rejects Novartis patent appeal India's Supreme Court has denied Novartis' appeal against the decision to refuse patent protection for its anticancer drug Glivec (imatinib mesylate).  |
Chemistry World July 15, 2014 Richard Cooper |
Phasing in crystallography: a modern perspective Phasing in crystallography has its origins in Carmelo Giacovazzo's monograph Direct phasing in crystallography, but with a broader coverage of the range of modern phasing methods.  |
Chemistry World September 19, 2014 Hayley Simon |
Dragonfly crystals on a silicon wafer Individual, dragonfly-shaped crystals have been grown on the surface of a silicon wafer dipped slowly into a solution of dotriacontane -- a 32 carbon alkane.  |
Chemistry World March 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Popcorn-like explosion of single crystals explained Chemists have created single crystals of metal coordination complexes that explode violently when exposed to UV light, leaping high into the air.  |
Geotimes June 2007 Megan Sever |
Colossal Crystals Discovered in Cave In one of the largest lead and silver mines in the world, workers discovered what researchers are calling the "cathedral" of giant gypsum crystals about 300 meters below ground.  |
Chemistry World September 30, 2010 James Urquhart |
Weightlifting crystals Japanese researchers have created a co-crystal that reversibly bends like human muscle when exposed to ultraviolet and visible light.  |
Chemistry World July 29, 2014 Derek Lowe |
The crystal ball that can tell lies X-ray crystallography has long had a sort of halo around it as the 'ground truth' of molecular structure, so many chemists are surprised to learn how rife with error it can be.  |
Chemistry World June 11, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
'Electronic glue' makes nanocrystals connect American chemists have developed an 'electronic glue' to link nanocrystals together - allowing groups of the crystals to be highly conductive.  |
Chemistry World July 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Propeller-shaped molecules give 2D polymers lift-off Crystal engineers have finally succeeded in achieving a goal that has eluded chemists for decades by unambiguously synthesizing two-dimensional polymer crystals, confirmed by single-crystal x-ray diffraction.  |
Chemistry World June 2, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Reactions in a crystal Crystals that can alter their composition without changing the structure of their solid lattice have been developed by US researchers.  |
Chemistry World May 15, 2006 Jon Evans |
Selective DNA Crystals A molecular biologist has developed a molecular sieve using a DNA crystal with nanoscale channels.  |
Chemistry World May 28, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Changing the face of a water splitting catalyst Australian chemists have grown crystals of the water-splitting catalyst titanium dioxide that are many times more reactive than usual.  |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Nicole Kresge |
A Structural Toolbox Natalie Strynadka wants to design a better antibiotic. Her strategy: learn about the molecules bacteria use to invade cells. Her tool: structural biology.  |
Science News December 16, 2006 |
Timeline: From the December 12, 1936, issue Spiral organization found in paraffin crystals... Lifesaver for "bleeders" found in egg white... Seedless fruits formed in unpollinated flowers...  |
Chemistry World July 17, 2008 Ruth Tunnell |
Uncovering the Hidden Nanoworld A new type of x-ray microscope allows scientists to peer inside nanodevices without opening them up.  |
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Earth's Core is Solid, After All Seismic waves passing through Earth's center have long puzzled researchers, as some waves travel fast enough to indicate that Earth's inner core is solid iron-nickel crystals, but they do not travel quite as quickly as scientists would expect, based on studies of stiff iron alloys.  |
Scientific American January 2009 Mark Wolverton |
Breaking Down Nanostructures by the Atom In nanotechnology, the position of a single atom can make all the difference -- whether a material functions as a semiconductor or an insulator, whether it triggers a vital chemical process or stops it cold.  |
Chemistry World September 4, 2015 Christine Cardin |
X-ray crystallography This Primer is a revised edition of Bill Clegg's popular student text first published in 1998. I  |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Nicole Kresge |
A Structural Revolution Over the years, scientists and artists have used an assortment of techniques to showcase molecular structure.  |
Chemistry World October 22, 2015 Andy Extance |
Crystals allow peek at picosecond DNA damage Right now, light is damaging DNA in your cells, but the chemistry that causes this damage remains murky.  |
Chemistry World April 18, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Shaping crystals with bio-tools Researchers in the US have developed a new approach for controlling crystal growth, borrowing tools from biology.  |
Chemistry World December 2, 2013 Andrea Sella |
The Braggs' spectrometer There are few where the stories of father and son have been as tightly intertwined as the Braggs, whose collaborative, and sometimes tense, partnership, almost single-handedly created x-ray crystallography.  |
Chemistry World September 12, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Nanopore Structures Could Tune Drug Crystallisation A recent finding offers a new way to tune the rate of crystallisation of different compounds and the morphology of the crystals that are formed.  |
Chemistry World December 5, 2007 Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Structural Snapshot Shows Monster Protein A structural snapshot of a protein capsule has revealed details of the largest cellular component ever imaged by x-ray crystallography.  |