Nucleation and growth process of protein crystals under high magnetic field

Abstract

Crystal growth processes of hen-egg-Lysozyme under high static magnetic field were studied by microscopic interferometry and dynamic light scattering measurements in order to control the crystallographic orientation. As a result, orientation of the crystals was obviously controlled by the direction of a magnetic induction under 6T, and few differences of the growth rates were observed from several nm to 400nm in the Lysozyme diameters under 0.6T.