Electron diffraction is a high-resolution technique for studying the atomic structure of materials, offering advantages in nanoscale characterization, defect analysis, and in-situ studies compared to ...

IN opening the discussion on electron diffraction and surface structure before a joint meeting of the Physical and Chemical Societies held on March 17, Prof. G. I. Finch compared electron ...

Figuring out certain aspects of a material's electron structure can take a lot out of a computer—up to a million CPU hours, in fact. A team of Yale researchers, though, are using a type of ...

An orbital structure is the space in an atom that’s occupied by an electron. But when describing these super-microscopic properties of matter, scientists have had to rely on wave functions — a ...

Scientists are reporting the first 3-D images of an individual protein ever obtained with enough clarity to determine its structure. When Gang Ren whirls the controls of his cryo-electron ...

To get a closer look, Eisenberg and colleagues turned to micro-electron diffraction, a technique that combines features of X-ray crystallography and cryoEM. As in cryoEM, samples are frozen in a ...

What shape is an electron? The answer, believe it or not, has implications for our understanding of the entire universe, and could reveal whether there are mysterious particles still to be discovered.

An international group of scientists, including Albert Guskov, associate professor at the University of Groningen, have used single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy to determine the ...

Determining the 3D structure of SPOP using cryo-EM allowed the researchers to gain insights into the underlying mechanisms that drive the function of this protein both in its normal state and when ...