In order to investigate grain boundary migration by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations a new approach involving a crystal orientation-dependent driving force has been developed by imposing an appropriate driving force on grain boundary atoms and enlarging the effective range of driving force.
Joe Root's expected succession of Alastair Cook as England Test captain, be it in January or further down the line, comes with no guarantees, with the team's assistant coach, Paul Farbrace, believing any talk about his suitability involves a touch of "crystal-ball gazing".
Since cleavage involves a splitting of the crystal along specific planes, it will preferentially take place parallel to those planes which are weakly bonded.
Thawing is another critical phase in the freezing process as it involves a change from ice crystals to melted water, which is reabsorbed, and microbial reactivation.
The anti-HIV drug evolution process resembles a crystal ball and involves a plenty of astonishment, expectations, and disappointments.
While a high-resolution (1.04 Å) crystal structure of the synaptotagmin-1 C2B domain had suggested that one of the ligands (D371) does not directly coordinate Ca2+ [43], this side chain was involved in a crystal contact (Figure 5C).
In all of the isolated crystal structures of SecY, cytosolic loops 6/7 and 8/9 are involved in a crystal contact (Van den Berg et al., 2004; Tsukazaki et al., 2008; Egea and Stroud, 2010) or interact with either a Fab or SecA (Tsukazaki et al., 2008; Zimmer et al., 2008).
The description of liquid crystals involves an analysis of order.
Piezoelectric crystals involve a nonuniform charge distribution within the cell unit of the crystal.
It will involve an incredibly pure crystal of silicon, dubbed an Avogadro sphere, which is manufactured so precisely that the number of atoms inside is known to high accuracy.
