Below we discuss the role x-ray diffraction plays in analyzing drugs in two different settings- security and pharmaceuticals. Recent years have seen x-ray techniques used at airports becoming more ...

An intrinsic property of paintings, that makes them both wonderful and very annoying, is the fact that they are physical objects. Sometimes they survive across the ages as amazing artifacts of ...

X-ray diffraction (XRD) is emerging as the most widely used technique for characterizing nanoparticles because of its ability to interact with the electrons of the inner shell of an atom. One method ...

Trips to synchrotron facilities could become a thing of the past for some researchers thanks to a new laboratory-scale ...

X-Ray crystallography experiments are broken down into four steps: Protein crystallization Production of a diffraction pattern Analysis of the diffraction pattern to produce an electron density ...

The first high-resolution x-ray diffraction imaging of an aerogel, performed at beamline 9.0.1 of the Department of Energy's Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

By analyzing the diffraction data, researchers can construct a detailed three-dimensional model of the atomic arrangement within the crystal. Diagram of X-ray crystallography: An X-ray beam is ...

X-ray diffraction methods lie at the foundation of materials science. Determination of the crystal structures of natural minerals and, later, of crystals grown in the laboratory led to our ...

The Materials Research X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) Facility at the University of Colorado Boulder provides cutting-edge capabilities for probing the structures of materials such as polymers, biological ...

The technique uses X-ray diffraction microscopy on cells frozen below –170 °C, and could pave the way for highly detailed 3D images of cells. This would provide biologists with valuable new ...

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 ...