Because of their unique properties, single-crystal materials often play an important role in creating novel products such as lasers and turbine blades. Single crystals are particularly interesting to ...

Like a tiny needle in a sprawling hayfield, a single crystal grain measuring just tens of millionths of a meter - found in a borehole sample drilled in Central Siberia - had an unexpected chemical ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 100, No. 15 (Jul. 22, 2003), pp. 8704-8709 (6 pages) Although conformational changes are essential for the ...

Single-crystal diffraction was invented 100 years ago by Max von Laue. It has since become a workhorse technique for chemists to determine the structures of organometallic complexes and other ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 13 (Mar. 28, 2006), pp. 4924-4929 (6 pages) Work carried out over the last 30 years unveiled the role of ...

Photonic Science back-reflection Laue system allows real-time crystal orientation down to 0.1 degrees accuracy. The system delivers an intense X-ray beam with less than 0.3mm on sample. Single ...

Daresbury Synchrotron Lab - Small molecule and powder diffractometry links The Daresbury Lab is the major synchrotron source in the UK, it is organized into discrete project areas. Area 14 deals with ...

X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) is a powerful structural characterization tool that is essentially a two point probe which measures the distance between all pairs of atoms within the diffraction volume ...