Living organisms are well known for building a wide range of specially designed organic–
inorganic hybrid materials such as bone, teeth, and shells, which are highly sophisticated in …

Interactions of macromolecules with growing crystalline surfaces play an important role in
biomineralization, determine survival of some organisms at low temperatures, and offer a …

In recent years, the prevalence of hydrogel‐like organic matrices in biomineralization has
gained attention as a route to synthesizing a diverse range of crystalline structures. Here …

Counterdiffusion crystallization in capillary is a very simple, cost-effective, and practical
procedure for obtaining protein crystals suitable for X-ray data analysis. Its principles have …

Publisher Summary This chapter deals with the counterdiffusion methods for
macromolecular crystallization. The chapter gives a basic introduction to the use of the …

Biogenic single‐crystal composites, such as sea urchin spines and calcitic prisms from
mollusk shells, contain organic macromolecules inside of inorganic single‐crystal matrices …

Granada Crystallisation Box (GCB) is a new crystallisation device designed to perform
counter-diffusion experiments. Here we describe the device and its use for protein …

A rheological and interferometric study of agarose sols and gels at different concentrations is
reported. At concentrations smaller than 0.12%(w/v) agarose solutions behave like non …

The key role played by counter-ions with enzymes in low-water systems has become better
appreciated with, for example, large effects on enantioselectivity. In low-dielectric media …

Very high quality crystals of tetragonal hen egg-white lysozyme were grown in the Advanced
Protein Crystallization Facility (APCF) on board the Space Shuttle using a modified free …