Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Pink-beam serial crystallography

  • A. Meents,
  • M. O. Wiedorn,
  • V. Srajer,
  • R. Henning,
  • I. Sarrou,
  • J. Bergtholdt,
  • M. Barthelmess,
  • P. Y. A. Reinke,
  • D. Dierksmeyer,
  • A. Tolstikova,
  • S. Schaible,
  • M. Messerschmidt,
  • C. M. Ogata,
  • D. J. Kissick,
  • M. H. Taft,
  • D. J. Manstein,
  • J. Lieske,
  • D. Oberthuer,
  • R. F. Fischetti,
  • H. N. Chapman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01417-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Serial X-ray crystallography (SX) is used for data collection at X-ray Free Electron Lasers. Here the authors show that a polychromatic “pink” synchrotron X-ray beam can be used for SX, which is useful when crystal supply is limited and will allow time-resolved measurements at synchrotron sources in the future.