Direct Observation of Enzymatic Degradation Behavior of Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] Lamellar Single Crystals by Atomic Force Microscopy

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (17) ◽  
pp. 5848-5853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomohide Murase ◽  
Tadahisa Iwata ◽  
Yoshiharu Doi
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin P. A. Gabriele ◽  
Craig J. Williams ◽  
Douglas Stauffer ◽  
Brian Derby ◽  
Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza

<div> <div> <div> <p>Single crystals of aspirin form I were cleaved and indented on their dominant face. Upon inspection, it was possible to observe strongly anisotropic shallow lateral cracks due to the extreme low surface roughness after cleavage. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) imaging showed spalling fractures nucleating from the indent corners, forming terraces with a height of one or two interplanar spacings d100. The formation of such spalling fractures in aspirin was rationalised using basic calculations of attachment energies, showing how (100) layers are poorly bonded when compared to their relatively higher intralayer bonding. An attempt at explaining the preferential propagation of these fractures along the [010] direction is discussed. </p> </div> </div> </div>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin P. A. Gabriele ◽  
Craig J. Williams ◽  
Douglas Stauffer ◽  
Brian Derby ◽  
Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza

<div> <div> <div> <p>Single crystals of aspirin form I were cleaved and indented on their dominant face. Upon inspection, it was possible to observe strongly anisotropic shallow lateral cracks due to the extreme low surface roughness after cleavage. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) imaging showed spalling fractures nucleating from the indent corners, forming terraces with a height of one or two interplanar spacings d100. The formation of such spalling fractures in aspirin was rationalised using basic calculations of attachment energies, showing how (100) layers are poorly bonded when compared to their relatively higher intralayer bonding. An attempt at explaining the preferential propagation of these fractures along the [010] direction is discussed. </p> </div> </div> </div>


1996 ◽  
Vol 86 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 193-193
Author(s):  
Denis ROBICHON ◽  
Jean-Franc¸ois CAVELLIER ◽  
Yves CENATIEMPO ◽  
Jean-Christophe GIRARD

2002 ◽  
Vol 91 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 157-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumar Sudesh ◽  
Zhihua Gan ◽  
Ken’ichiro Matsumoto ◽  
Yoshiharu Doi

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (17) ◽  
pp. 4974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeto Inoue ◽  
Takayuki Uchihashi ◽  
Daisuke Yamamoto ◽  
Toshio Ando

1995 ◽  
Vol 413 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Shivshankar ◽  
C. Sung ◽  
J. Kumar ◽  
S. K. Tripathy ◽  
D. J. Sandman

ABSTRACTWe have studied the surface morphology of free standing single crystals of thermochromic polydiacetylenes (PDAs), namely, ETCD and IPUDO (respectively, the ethyl and isopropyl urethanes of 5,7-dodecadiyn-1,12-diol), by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) under ambient conditions. Micron scale as well as molecularly resolved images were obtained. The micron scale images indicate a variable surface, and the molecularly resolved images show a well defined 2-D lattice that is interpreted in terms of molecular models and known crystallographic data. Thereby information about surface morphology, which is crucial to potential optical device or chromic sensor performance is available. We also report the observation of a “macroscopic shattering” of the IPUDO monomer crystal during in-situ UV polymerization studies.


1994 ◽  
Vol 179 (3) ◽  
pp. 595-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bineta Keita ◽  
Louis Nadjo ◽  
René Céolin ◽  
Viatcheslav Agafonov ◽  
Daniel André ◽  
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