Preparation of enzyme crystals with tunable morphology in membrane crystallizers

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 10005-10012

  Di Profio, Gianluca ^a   Perrone, Gisella ^a   Curcio, Efrem ^a   Cassetta, Alberto ^b   Lamba, Doriano ^b   Drioli, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYMES; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEINS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTAL SIZE; DYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS; MEMBRANE SYSTEM;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

ENZYME; MEMBRANE; MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 30344462357     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0508233     Document Type: Article

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