Liquid sample delivery techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1647, 2014, Pages

  Weierstall, Uwe ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallography; Liquid jets; Serial femtosecond; X ray free electron laser

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PROTEIN; RADIATION DAMAGE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; LASER; PROCEDURES; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRONS; LASERS; NANOPARTICLES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84902668642     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0337     Document Type: Review

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