Determination of Silkworm Silk Fibroin Compressibility Using High Hydrostatic Pressure with in Situ X-ray Microdiffraction

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (20) ◽  
pp. 7187-7193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Krywka ◽  
Igor Krasnov ◽  
Roxana Figuli ◽  
Manfred Burghammer ◽  
Martin Müller
Keyword(s):  
Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
Silk Fibroin ◽  
High Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Silkworm Silk

X-ray reflectivity measurements of liquid/solid interfaces under high hydrostatic pressure conditions

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian J. Wirkert ◽  
Michael Paulus ◽  
Julia Nase ◽  
Johannes Möller ◽  
Simon Kujawski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
High Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
Protein Unfolding ◽  
High Pressure Cell ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Pressure Cell ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Pressure Regime

A high-pressure cell forin situX-ray reflectivity measurements of liquid/solid interfaces at hydrostatic pressures up to 500 MPa (5 kbar), a pressure regime that is particularly important for the study of protein unfolding, is presented. The original set-up of this hydrostatic high-pressure cell is discussed and its unique properties are demonstrated by the investigation of pressure-induced adsorption of the protein lysozyme onto hydrophobic silicon wafers. The presented results emphasize the enormous potential of X-ray reflectivity studies under high hydrostatic pressure conditions for thein situinvestigation of adsorption phenomena in biological systems.

Single Crystal Growth of High-Pressure Phases of Ice and Salt Hydrate Far Below the Original Melting Point by Mixing Alcohol: Crystal Structure Determination of Magnesium Chloride Heptahydrate

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keishiro Yamashita ◽  
Kazuki Komatsu ◽  
Hiroyuki Kagi
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
High Pressure ◽  
Crystal Growth ◽  
Single Crystal ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Growth Technique ◽  
Salt Hydrate ◽  
X Ray

An crystal-growth technique for single crystal x-ray structure analysis of high-pressure forms of hydrogen-bonded crystals is proposed. We used alcohol mixture (methanol: ethanol = 4:1 in volumetric ratio), which is a widely used pressure transmitting medium, inhibiting the nucleation and growth of unwanted crystals. In this paper, two kinds of single crystals which have not been obtained using a conventional experimental technique were obtained using this technique: ice VI at 1.99 GPa and MgCl<sub>2</sub>·7H<sub>2</sub>O at 2.50 GPa at room temperature. Here we first report the crystal structure of MgCl2·7H2O. This technique simultaneously meets the requirement of hydrostaticity for high-pressure experiments and has feasibility for further in-situ measurements.

scholarly journals X-ray Study of Strain Relaxation in Heteroepitaxial AlGaAs Layers Annealed under High Hydrostatic Pressure

2002 ◽  
Vol 101 (5) ◽  
pp. 689-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Bąk-Misiuk ◽  
J. Adamczewska ◽  
A. Misiuk ◽  
K. Regiński ◽  
W. Wierzchowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
High Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
Strain Relaxation ◽  
X Ray

Determination of the crystal structure of magnesium perchlorate hydrates by X-ray powder diffraction and the charge-flipping method

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 579-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Robertson ◽  
David Bish
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Fundamental Parameter ◽  
Magnesium Perchlorate ◽  
Space Group ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Partial Pressures ◽  
Dehydration Reactions

X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) data were used to solve the crystal structures of phases in the magnesium perchlorate hydrate system, Mg(ClO4)2·nH2O (n = 4, 2). A heating stage and humidity generator interfaced to an environmental cell enabled in-situ XRD analyses of dehydration reactions under controlled temperatures and partial pressures of H2O (P_{{\rm H}_2{\rm O}}). The crystal structures were determined using an ab initio charge-flipping method and were refined using fundamental-parameter Rietveld methods. Dehydration of magnesium perchlorate hexahydrate to tetrahydrate (348 K) results in a decrease in symmetry (space group = C2), where isolated Mg2+ cations are equatorially coordinated by four H2O molecules with two [ClO4]− tetrahedra at the apices. Further dehydration to the dihydrate (423 K) leads to bridging of the isolated packets to form double corner-sharing chains of octahedra and polyhedra (space group = C2/m).

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