Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Roessler CG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4920001 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Structure (London, England : 1993) 20160317 4
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide very intense X-ray pulses suitable for macromolecular crystallography. Each X-ray pulse typically lasts for tens of femtoseconds and the interval between pulses is many orders of magnitude longer. Here we describe two novel acoustic injection systems that use focused sound waves to eject picoliter to nanoliter crystal-containing droplets out of microplates and into the X-ray pulse from which diffraction data are collected. The on-demand droplet delivery ...[more]