Science· 2015Q1· Review
Beyond crystallography: Diffractive imaging using coherent x-ray light sources
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- 2015year
Short summary
New coherent imaging methods are enabling the 3D structural determination of noncrystalline samples, overcoming a key limitation of traditional X-ray crystallography.
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Key points
- Traditional X-ray crystallography is limited to crystalline samples.
- Noncrystalline samples are prevalent in physics, chemistry, materials science, nanoscience, geology, and biology.
- New coherent imaging methods are being developed to analyze these noncrystalline samples.
- Advances in coherent X-ray light sources are driving these new imaging capabilities.
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Abstract
X-ray crystallography has been central to the development of many fields of science over the past century. It has now matured to a point that as long as good-quality crystals are available, their atomic structure can be routinely determined in three dimensions. However, many samples in physics, chemistry, materials science, nanoscience, geology, and biology are noncrystalline, and thus their three-dimensional structures are not accessible by traditional x-ray crystallography. Overcoming this hurdle has required the development of new coherent imaging methods to harness new coherent x-ray light sources. Here we review the revolutionary advances that are transforming x-ray sources and imaging in the 21st century.
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Field: Radiation
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