Method for generating an artificially patterned substrate for stimulating the crystallization of a biomolecule thereon and method of stimulating the crystallization of biomolecules

• Main Authors: GOBRECHT, JENS, PADESTE, CELENTINO, SOLAK, HARUN, KAMBACH, CHRISTIAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 20.08.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF SINGLE CRYSTALS OR A HOMOGENEOUSPOLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR; APPARATUS THEREFOR; CHEMISTRY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; MATERIALS THEREFOR; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; PEPTIDES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES,e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTORDEVICES; PHYSICS; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL; SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE; SINGLE-CRYSTAL-GROWTH; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL ORUNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL

It is the aim of the invention to provide a technology for the stimulation of the crystallization of biomolecules contained in a liquid solution that leads to significant improvements in the reliability of crystall growth processes and shortens the time and the number of attempts to grow a certain b...