You can buy sunglasses that become darker when you go outside. Similarly, some crystals reversibly change color from, say, clear to blue when exposed to certain wavelengths of light. These are nice ...

Two-step nucleation pathways in which disordered, amorphous, or dense liquid states precede the appearance of crystalline phases have been reported for a wide range of materials, but the dynamics of ...

Scientists have developed an in-cell protein crystallization method to understand the structure and function relationship of protein crystals. Utilizing in-cell protein crystallization in structural ...

Protein crystallography has significantly aided the understanding of human disease at a molecular level. As the knowledge of accurate molecular structures is a prerequisite for rational drug design, ...

Today, crystallization is used primarily to analyze the structures of proteins. It also is gaining favor as a purification method for elastase, proteases, albumin, and lipase, in addition to ...