Oxide–and silicate–water interfaces and their roles in technology and the environment

JL Bañuelos, E Borguet, GE Brown Jr… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Non-classical crystallization in soft and organic materials

JS Du, Y Bae, JJ De Yoreo - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Classical nucleation and crystal growth theories describe how nuclei form, become stable
after reaching a critical size and then enlarge through monomer attachment. More than two …

A review of classical and nonclassical nucleation theories

S Karthika, TK Radhakrishnan… - Crystal Growth & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nucleation, the initial process in vapor condensation, crystal nucleation, melting, and
boiling, is the localized emergence of a distinct thermodynamic phase at the nanoscale that …

Two types of amorphous protein particles facilitate crystal nucleation

T Yamazaki, Y Kimura, PG Vekilov… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Nucleation, the primary step in crystallization, dictates the number of crystals, the distribution
of their sizes, the polymorph selection, and other crucial properties of the crystal population …

Recent progress on understanding the mechanisms of amyloid nucleation

E Chatani, N Yamamoto - Biophysical reviews, 2018 - Springer
Amyloid fibrils are supramolecular protein assemblies with a fibrous morphology and cross-
β structure. The formation of amyloid fibrils typically follows a nucleation-dependent …

Dynamics of proteins in solution

M Grimaldo, F Roosen-Runge, F Zhang… - Quarterly Reviews of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The dynamics of proteins in solution includes a variety of processes, such as backbone and
side-chain fluctuations, interdomain motions, as well as global rotational and translational …

Recent advances in drug polymorphs: Aspects of pharmaceutical properties and selective crystallization

Q Shi, H Chen, Y Wang, J Xu, Z Liu, C Zhang - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drug polymorphism, an established term used to describe the phenomenon that a drug can
exist in different crystalline phases, has attracted great interests in pharmaceutical field in …

Mesoscopic protein-rich clusters host the nucleation of mutant p53 amyloid fibrils

DS Yang, A Saeedi, A Davtyan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The protein p53 is a crucial tumor suppressor, often called “the guardian of the genome”;
however, mutations transform p53 into a powerful cancer promoter. The oncogenic capacity …

Phase separation: Bridging polymer physics and biology

SL Perry - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Significant parallels exist between the phase separation behavior of polymers in solution
and the types of biomolecular condensates, or 'membraneless organelles,'that are of …

Understanding crystal nucleation mechanisms: where do we stand? General discussion

MW Anderson, M Bennett, R Cedeno, H Cölfen… - Faraday …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Kristen Fichthorn opened the discussion of the introductory lecture by James De Yoreo: I
noted that in your potential of mean force (PMF) plots for various particle orientations, …