Ideally, when finding a drug, scientists start with a crystal structure of receptor proteins found on the surfaces of cells.
On April 8th 1982 Dr Shechtman fired a beam of electrons at a slice of aluminium-manganese alloy, in order to understand its crystal structure.
Purple diamonds owe their color to imperfections in the crystal structure.
This means there is a greater chance of their meeting one another, allowing an extra atom to fill a hole and restore the crystal structure.
High-tech lab analyses revealed panguite's chemical composition and crystal structure, which Ma said is new, and as such, could be explored for novel engineering materials.
This fantastic plastic has molecules far longer than those of regular polyethylene, and these molecules are, in addition, packed tightly into a crystal structure rather than being scattered at random.
The other, which faces a specialised type of solar cell made of a material called indium gallium arsenide, is sculpted into a structure called a photonic crystal that causes it to emit infra-red radiation selectively at the frequency best absorbed by the cell.
This weakness is caused by defects forming in their crystal-lattice structure, which in turn are caused by high-energy particles such as neutrons bumping into individual atoms and knocking them out of place.
Russell and Xu's method starts with a sliced crystal, either sapphire or silicon, cut at an angle that exposes a ragged section of the crystal's lattice structure.
Spurs' plan had involved knocking down most of the structure and rebuilding it without the running track, instead rebuilding the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace.
Hilltop Crystal Palace Park was created to display Joseph Paxton's behemoth glass-and-iron structure, relocated from Hyde Park after the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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