It's no exaggeration to say that the invention of X-ray crystallography was one of the most important developments of the twentieth century. It revolutionized our understanding of the material world ...

Every protein crystallographer has had the thrill of finding the first shower of microcrystals of a new protein and the subsequent frustration that, try what may, they cannot get them to grow bigger.

Joseph Tanski still remembers the first time he figured out a molecule’s structure using X-ray crystallography. It was the early 1990s, and he was a sophomore at Vassar College. It took more than a ...

Crystallography is the term applied to the field which studies crystalline structures. Many crystalline structures exist in nature, such as gemstones and rocks. In the field of life sciences, however, ...

For most chemists, the term crystallography is interchangeable with X-ray diffraction. But really crystallography is just the study of the forms and structures of crystals, and there are plenty of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper deals with the very great changes in X-ray crystallographic techniques and apparatus over a period of approximately the last 60 ...

The world of the nanomolecular is an enigmatic one. To understand the physical, chemical, and nuclear properties that shape the world, scientists have devised ever-more sophisticated methods over the ...

Crystallography is the study of the atomic structures of crystals, where the diffraction or reflection of x-rays through the crystal is used to determine the crystal's internal structure. Crystal ...

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For generations, people have believed that no two snowflakes are ever the same. But modern microscopy and crystallography ...

Diffraction-based analytical methods are widely used in laboratories, but they struggle to study samples that are smaller than a micrometer in size. Researchers have nevertheless been successful in ...