In the second part of the article, the subtractive processes—laser etching and cutting—in the
presence of liquid water will be reviewed; but the rarely used methods of water …

We review the idea that domain boundaries, rather than domains, can carry information and
act as memory devices. Domains are bulk objects; their large response to changing external …

Ubiquitous crystals play an important role in our daily lives. Recent studies on the properties
and formation of crystals have proven the attachment of particles ranging from ion pairs to …

Large-scale computer simulations of a simple model with a square-lattice topology, a small
shear deformation (4° shear angle), and open (free) boundary conditions show that domain …

Using atomic force microscopy (AFM) in situ during the crystallization of the protein
apoferritin from its solution, we imaged the arrangement of the molecules in near-critical …

Nucleation determines the essential properties of a population of growing crystals including
the number of crystals, their size distribution, location, and polymorphs. In this chapter, we …

Lead zirconate titanate nanoislands were obtained by a self-patterning method making use
of the instability of ultrathin films during high-temperature treatments. After high-temperature …

A monomolecular layer model of the surface phase of microdroplets was proposed, and the
exact expression for Tolman length was derived in this paper. The Tolman lengths of water …

Publisher Summary This chapter establishes a statistically viable correlation between the
available sequence of amino acids in the protein chain and the special folding of chain. This …

Landau-type theories describe the observed behaviour of phase transitions in ferroelastic
and co-elastic minerals and materials with a high degree of accuracy. In this review, the …