English
Related papers

Related papers: Structure determination from single-molecule X-ray…

200 papers

X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFEL) are revolutionary photons sources, whose ultrashort, brilliant pulses are expected to allow single molecule diffraction experiments providing structural information on the atomic length scale. This ultimate…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Andrea Fratalocchi , Giancarlo Ruocco

The resolution of X-ray diffraction microscopy is limited by the maximum dose that can be delivered prior to sample damage. In the proposed Serial Crystallography method, the damage problem is addressed by distributing the total dose over…

The mode of action of proteins is to a large extent given by their ability to adopt different conformations. This is why imaging single biomolecules at atomic resolution is one of the ultimate goals of biophysics and structural biology. The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Jean-Nicolas Longchamp , Tatiana Latychevskaia , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink

We present a theoretical justification for a method of extracting of supplementary information for the phase retrieval procedure taken from diffraction of fs-pulses from X-ray Free Electron Laser facilities. The approach is based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-18 A. Leonov , D. Ksenzov , A. Benediktovitch , I. Feranchuk , U. Pietsch

Structure determination is a key application of XFELs and 4th generation synchrotron sources, particularly using the coherent and pulsed X-ray radiation from X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL). Scientific interest focuses on understanding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-07 Markus Kuster , Robert Hartmann , Steffen Hauf , Peter Holl , Tonn Rüter , Lothar Strüder

Ultrafast scattering using X-rays or electrons is an emerging method to obtain structure dynamics at the atomic length and time scales. However, directly resolving in real-space atomic motions is inherently limited by the finite detector…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Adi Natan

X-ray as well as electron diffraction are powerful tools for structure determination of molecules. Studies on randomly oriented molecules in the gas-phase address cases in which molecular crystals cannot be generated or the interaction-free…

The core theme of X-ray crystallography is reconstructing the electron density distribution of crystals under the constraints of observed diffraction data. Nevertheless, the reconstruction of electron density distribution by straightforward…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-14 Hui Li , Meng He , Ze Zhang

Knowledge of molecular structure is paramount in understanding, and ultimately influencing, chemical reactivity. For nearly a century, diffractive imaging has been used to identify the structures of many biologically-relevant gas-phase…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Kasra Amini , Jens Biegert

Because of their high photon flux, X-ray free-electron lasers (FEL) allow to resolve the structure of individual nanoparticles via coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) within a single X-ray pulse. Since the inevitable rapid destruction of the…

Recent experiments at free-electron laser x-ray sources have been able to resolve the intensity distributions about Bragg peaks in nanocrystals of large biomolecules. Information derived from small shifts in the peak positions augment the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-05 Veit Elser

We present here an overview of Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging (CXDI) with its application to nanostructures. This imaging approach has become especially important recently due to advent of X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFEL) and its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 Ivan A. Vartanyants , Oleksandr M. Yefanov

X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) as the world's brightest light sources provide ultrashort X-ray pulses with a duration typically in the order of femtoseconds. Recently, they have approached and entered the attosecond regime, which holds…

Tracing the motion of electrons has enormous relevance to understanding ubiquitous phenomena in ultrafast science, such as the dynamical evolution of the electron density during complex chemical and biological processes. Scattering of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 Gopal Dixit , Jan Malte Slowik , Robin Santra

The development of high-brightness free-electron lasers (FEL) has revolutionised our ability to create and study matter in the high-energy-density (HED) regime. Current diagnostic techniques have been very successful in yielding information…

The short and intense pulses of the new X-ray free electron lasers, now operational or under construction, may make possible diffraction experiments on single molecule-sized objects with high resolution, before radiation damage destroys the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-04-11 Miklós Tegze , Gábor Bortel

X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) are promising tools for structural determination of macromolecules via coherent x-ray scattering. During ultrashort and ultraintense x-ray pulses with an atomic scale wavelength, samples are subject to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 Sang-Kil Son , Linda Young , Robin Santra

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful and well established technique with sensitivity to elemental and chemical composition. Despite these advantages, its implementation has not kept pace with the development of ultrafast pulsed…