Max von Laue (1879-1960) recognized that the regularly spaced planes of atoms and molecules in crystals resemble a diffraction grating. He and his coworkers, W. Friedrich and P. Knipping, showed in 1912 that a beam of x rays, with a wavelength...

X-ray crystallography is a process by which the extremely fine atomic structure of many crystals can be examined and recorded. It was first developed not as a research tool but as a means of determining the nature of X-rays themselves. X-rays were...

X-ray Crystallography is the study and determination of crystalline structures through x-ray diffraction techniques. In 1953, Watson and Crick used x-ray crystallography to discover the double-helix structure of DNA. X-ray crystallography is most...

An analytical technique used to identify crystalline solids by measuring the characteristic spaces between layers of atoms or molecules in a crystal. X-ray diffraction can be very useful in the identification of explosive...

X-ray crystallography is the science of determining the arrangement of atoms within a crystal from the manner in which a beam of X-rays is scattered from the electrons within the crystal. The method produces a three-dimensional picture of the density of...

Technology captures transient intermediates X-ray crystallography typically is used to capture static images of molecular structure. But Philip Coppens of the University of Buffalo and colleagues recently employed a variation called time-resolved X-ray crystallography to study contraction of the metal-metal bond lengths in...

LAB CONSUMER Efforts to remove procedural bottlenecks are making high-throughput structural genomics a reality For years, the process of X-ray crystallography has moved at a tortoise's pace. "When I started in the field, it would typically take 20 person-years to produce a...