HTTP:: Crystal Growth Experiment Now Aboard the ISS
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US Department of Energy (DOE) Ames Laboratory senior metallurgist Rohit Trivedi now has all the reasons in the world to be filled with joy. His crystal-growth experiment, which he first dreamed of more than a decade ago, is finally aboard the International Space Station (ISS), in a microgravity environment. The DECLIC â€" DEvice for the study of Critical LIquids and Crystallization â€" micro-laboratory was delivered aboard the ISS by space shuttle Discovery, during the STS-128 mission. Trivedi's laboratory, in Wilhelm Hall on the Iowa State University (ISU) campus, in Ames, will be directly linked to the small lab, and the expert will thus be able to control all the parameters of crystal growth he wants, all in real time. The final goal of the destination is to understand how crystals form when materials move from their liquid to their solid state, and also how variations in external conditions influence the crystallization process, if at all. Having already exhausted most !
possibilities back on Earth, for the past ten years, the expert has wanted to study these effects in microgravity.“When materials 'freeze' there are specific crystalline growth patterns that appear, and there are fundamental physics that govern these patterns. However, small effects can have si...
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