The largest crystals in the world are grown. It happened on Board the International space station.
An international group of scientists started microgravity testing on the topic of growing protein crystals in space.
Scientists have set a goal to grow an effective, three-dimensional crystals that you could apply in neutron macromolecular crystallography. Scheme of crystallization uses a capillary tube to regulate the speed of difusiy in a chemical solution. The dissolved protein molecules are concentrated, and eventually become saturated. After the treated material exits from the prepared solution in the form of crystals.
The researchers said that they have developed the system gave the result. Now space grown crystals will give a chance for the medicine to create new drugs.
