Probabilistic nucleation and crystal growth in porous medium: new insights from calcium carbonate precipitation on primary and secondary substrates

M Nooraiepour, M Masoudi, N Shokri, H Hellevang - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
Knowledge of crystal nucleation and growth is paramount in understanding the geometry
evolution of porous medium during reactive transport processes in geo-environmental …

Pore-scale modeling of nucleation and growth in porous media

H Fazeli, M Masoudi, RA Patel, P Aagaard… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2020 - ACS Publications
During the chemical interactions between fluid and minerals in different geological
processes, it is of high importance to predict where secondary precipitates form in the …

Molecular dynamics simulations of aqueous glycine solutions

YG Bushuev, SV Davletbaeva, OI Koifman - CrystEngComm, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Simulations of glycine aqueous solutions have been carried out to study the effect of
increasing solute concentration on the aggregation of glycine zwitterions. AMBER force field …

Precipitation-induced Geometry Evolution in Porous Media: Numerical and Experimental Insights based on New Model on Probabilistic Nucleation and Mineral …

M Nooraiepour, M Masoudi, N Shorki… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Precipitation and growth of solid phases during a reactive fluid flow and solute transport are
critical in many natural and industrial systems. Mineral nucleation and growth is a prime …

Narrow size distribution of lysozyme crystals in a reverse vapor diffusion set-up

IL Dimitrov - CrystEngComm, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The reverse vapor diffusion method is among the rarest methods used in protein
crystallization studies. In the common case, it is accompanied by a decrease in the …

Modeling the effect of monomer conformational change on the early stage of protein self-assembly into fibrils

D Kashchiev - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2017 - ACS Publications
Filamentous self-assembly of proteins is an important process implicated in a plethora of
human diseases and of interest for nanotechnology. Using rate equations, we analyze the …

[HTML][HTML] Process modelling of protein crystallisation: A case study of lysozyme

HM Mitchell, D Jovannus, I Rosbottom, FJ Link… - … Research and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rise in interest of protein crystallisation as a purification step in downstream
processing, there is significant interest in the process modelling of these crystallisation …

Crystal nucleation from solutions of proteins with temperature-independent solubility: a case study of apoferritin

IL Dimitrov - CrystEngComm, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Apoferritin is a thermostable protein cage that belongs to those proteins whose solubility
does not exhibit dependence on temperature. This opens up a possibility for investigation of …

Kinetic factors may reshape the dependence of crystal nucleation rate on temperature in protein bulk solution

IL Dimitrov - Journal of Biological Physics, 2020 - Springer
Here we provide an analysis of primary results obtained from a study of apoferritin crystal
nucleation in compositionally invariant bulk solution at constant supersaturation ratio of the …

A view on the aggregation issue in lysozyme crystallization

IL Dimitrov, DP Koleva, FV Hodzhaoglu - CrystEngComm, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The aggregation of lysozyme in crystallizing solutions prior to crystal nucleation and during
crystal growth has been the subject of numerous investigations over the past two decades …