Organic semiconductors could usher in an era of foldable smartphones, better high-definition television screens and clothing made of materials that can harvest energy from the sun needed to charge your iPad, but there is one serious drawback: Organic semiconductors do not conduct electricity very well.

Because one of the main bottlenecks in determining the structure of protein molecules is producing good isolated single crystals, improved crystallization techniques would be useful in a wide range of genomics and pharmaceutical research.

U.S. and British scientists have developed a process for growing a single-crystal semiconductor inside the tunnel of a hollow optical fiber.

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c20719) has announced the addition of Silicon Market Research to their offering The objective of this review is to analyze the international and CIS markets for monocrystalline and polycrystalline silicon.

ABSTRACT Crystallization of the mutated hemoglobin, HbC, which occurs inside red blood cells of patients expressing β^sup c^-globin and exhibiting the homozygous CC and the heterozygous SC (in which two mutant β-globins, S and C, are expressed) diseases, is a convenient model for processes underlying numerous condensation diseases.