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Suppressed hydration in metoclopramide hydrochloride by salt cocrystallisation 10.1039/C8CE00129D 2018-02-28 Metoclopramide (MCP), a widely used antiemetic drug, is marketed as hydrochloride salt existing in the monohydrate and anhydrate forms. In this study, the hydration/dehydration behaviour of MCP hydrochloride salt was investigated by thermal and crystal struct...
Enhanced hydrothermal crystallization and color tailorable photoluminescence of hexagonal structured YPO4:Sm/Tb nanorods 10.1039/C8CE00183A 2018-02-27 Hexagonal structured YPO4:Tb/Sm (h-YPO4:Tb/Sm) nanorods with significantly large aspect ratios of up to ∼32 have been successfully fabricated via hydrothermal crystallization in the presence of sodium malate (Mal2−) and superfluous PO43−. The combined techniq...
Solid state transformations of different stoichiometric forms of an organic salt formed from 5-sulfosalicylic acid and hexamethylenetetramine upon dehydration and rehydration 10.1039/C8CE00022K 2018-02-26 Neat grinding of 5-sulfosalicylic acid (A) and hexamethylenetetramine (B) yields two stoichiometric hydrated salts A1B1·H2O and A1B2·H2O. The hydrated forms A1B1·H2O and A1B2·H2O undergo a reversible solid state interconversion process with anhydrous A1B1 and...
Application of protein crystallization methodologies to enhance the solubility, stability and monodispersity of proteins 10.1039/C7CE02189E 2018-02-24 Protein crystallization screens are commonly used to find specific crystallization conditions. In practice, undesirable clear drops are often ignored. We hypothesize that clear drops may be potentially useful for finding the conditions leading to proteins wit...
Discrimination and quantification of sulfathiazole polytypes using low-frequency Raman spectroscopy 10.1039/C8CE00081F 2018-02-23 Sulfathiazole forms II, III and IV are polytypes where common monolayers accumulate in different stacking modes. These polytypes are difficult to identify using conventional analytical techniques when they concomitantly crystallize. However, the use of low-fr...
Six novel coordination polymers based on the 5-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)isophthalic acid ligand: structures, luminescence, and magnetic properties 10.1039/C8CE00030A 2018-02-22 Six new coordination polymers (CPs), namely, [Mn2(OH)(TZI)(DMA)] (1), [Cu2(OH)(TZI)(DMA)]·3.5H2O (2), [Co2(OH)(TZI)(H2O)2] (3), [Zn2(OH)(TZI)(2,2′-bpy)]·H2O (4), [Zn2(OH)(TZI)(phen)]·2H2O (5) and [Zn2(OH)(TZI)(4,4′-bpy)0.5] (6), (H3TZI = 5-(4-(tetrazol-5-yl)p...
Growth mechanisms of fiber-like and dendrite-like boron in a Cu melt 10.1039/C7CE02212C 2018-02-21 The morphology evolution and growth mechanisms of boron in a Cu melt have been studied in this work. It was found that there are two different morphologies of eutectic boron in a Cu melt at ambient pressure, i.e. fiber-like and dendrite-like. These two morpho...
Phosphine-free synthesis and shape evolution of MoSe2 nanoflowers for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reactions 10.1039/C8CE00159F 2018-02-21 MoSe2 represents important layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) that have high electrocatalytic activity in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). A key issue to achieve excellent electrochemical properties of MoSe2 is to synthesize nanostructures ...
The effect of Eu doping on the growth, structure and red-ox activity of ceria nanocubes 10.1039/C8CE00155C 2018-02-21 Ce1–xEuxO2 nanocubes, with maximum Eu content x = 0.4, were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method. Application of various experimental techniques (SEM-EDS, STEM-EDS, XPS, ICP-AES) revealed a uniform distribution of Eu and Ce in the nanocubes, but some o...
Ni-introduced CuAu nanocages: facile co-reduction synthesis of a novel magnetic multi-metallic nanostructure with high peroxidase mimetic activity 10.1039/C7CE02165H 2018-02-21 In this study, a simple and mild route was designed for the synthesis of novel octahedral Ni-introduced CuAu nanocages via a co-reduction process. Based on sequential reactions, Cu2O/Au nano-octahedra were firstly prepared through galvanic displacement reacti...

Suppressed hydration in metoclopramide hydrochloride by salt cocrystallisation

10.1039/C8CE00129D

2018-02-28

Metoclopramide (MCP), a widely used antiemetic drug, is marketed as hydrochloride salt existing in the monohydrate and anhydrate forms. In this study, the hydration/dehydration behaviour of MCP hydrochloride salt was investigated by thermal and crystal struct...

Enhanced hydrothermal crystallization and color tailorable photoluminescence of hexagonal structured YPO4:Sm/Tb nanorods

10.1039/C8CE00183A

2018-02-27

Hexagonal structured YPO4:Tb/Sm (h-YPO4:Tb/Sm) nanorods with significantly large aspect ratios of up to ∼32 have been successfully fabricated via hydrothermal crystallization in the presence of sodium malate (Mal2−) and superfluous PO43−. The combined techniq...

Solid state transformations of different stoichiometric forms of an organic salt formed from 5-sulfosalicylic acid and hexamethylenetetramine upon dehydration and rehydration

10.1039/C8CE00022K

2018-02-26

Neat grinding of 5-sulfosalicylic acid (A) and hexamethylenetetramine (B) yields two stoichiometric hydrated salts A1B1·H2O and A1B2·H2O. The hydrated forms A1B1·H2O and A1B2·H2O undergo a reversible solid state interconversion process with anhydrous A1B1 and...

Application of protein crystallization methodologies to enhance the solubility, stability and monodispersity of proteins

10.1039/C7CE02189E

2018-02-24

Protein crystallization screens are commonly used to find specific crystallization conditions. In practice, undesirable clear drops are often ignored. We hypothesize that clear drops may be potentially useful for finding the conditions leading to proteins wit...

Discrimination and quantification of sulfathiazole polytypes using low-frequency Raman spectroscopy

10.1039/C8CE00081F

2018-02-23

Sulfathiazole forms II, III and IV are polytypes where common monolayers accumulate in different stacking modes. These polytypes are difficult to identify using conventional analytical techniques when they concomitantly crystallize. However, the use of low-fr...

Six novel coordination polymers based on the 5-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)isophthalic acid ligand: structures, luminescence, and magnetic properties

10.1039/C8CE00030A

2018-02-22

Six new coordination polymers (CPs), namely, [Mn2(OH)(TZI)(DMA)] (1), [Cu2(OH)(TZI)(DMA)]·3.5H2O (2), [Co2(OH)(TZI)(H2O)2] (3), [Zn2(OH)(TZI)(2,2′-bpy)]·H2O (4), [Zn2(OH)(TZI)(phen)]·2H2O (5) and [Zn2(OH)(TZI)(4,4′-bpy)0.5] (6), (H3TZI = 5-(4-(tetrazol-5-yl)p...

Growth mechanisms of fiber-like and dendrite-like boron in a Cu melt

10.1039/C7CE02212C

2018-02-21

The morphology evolution and growth mechanisms of boron in a Cu melt have been studied in this work. It was found that there are two different morphologies of eutectic boron in a Cu melt at ambient pressure, i.e. fiber-like and dendrite-like. These two morpho...

Phosphine-free synthesis and shape evolution of MoSe2 nanoflowers for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reactions

10.1039/C8CE00159F

2018-02-21

MoSe2 represents important layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) that have high electrocatalytic activity in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). A key issue to achieve excellent electrochemical properties of MoSe2 is to synthesize nanostructures ...

The effect of Eu doping on the growth, structure and red-ox activity of ceria nanocubes

10.1039/C8CE00155C

2018-02-21

Ce1–xEuxO2 nanocubes, with maximum Eu content x = 0.4, were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method. Application of various experimental techniques (SEM-EDS, STEM-EDS, XPS, ICP-AES) revealed a uniform distribution of Eu and Ce in the nanocubes, but some o...

Ni-introduced CuAu nanocages: facile co-reduction synthesis of a novel magnetic multi-metallic nanostructure with high peroxidase mimetic activity

10.1039/C7CE02165H

2018-02-21

In this study, a simple and mild route was designed for the synthesis of novel octahedral Ni-introduced CuAu nanocages via a co-reduction process. Based on sequential reactions, Cu2O/Au nano-octahedra were firstly prepared through galvanic displacement reacti...