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Femtosecond Crystallography with Ultrabright Electrons and X-rays: Capturing Chemistry in Action

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Miller,  R. J. Dwayne
Miller Group, Atomically Resolved Dynamics Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, Hamburg 22761, Germany;
Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto M5S 1H6, Canada;

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Miller, R. J. D. (2014). Femtosecond Crystallography with Ultrabright Electrons and X-rays: Capturing Chemistry in Action. Science, 343(6175), 1108-1116. doi:10.1126/science.1248488.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0024-B27B-8
Abstract
With the recent advances in ultrabright electron and x-ray sources, it is now possible to extend crystallography to the femtosecond time domain to literally light up atomic motions involved in the primary processes governing structural transitions. This review chronicles the development of brighter and brighter electron and x-ray sources that have enabled atomic resolution to structural dynamics for increasingly complex systems. The primary focus is on achieving sufficient brightness using pump-probe protocols to resolve the far-from-equilibrium motions directing chemical processes that in general lead to irreversible changes in samples. Given the central importance of structural transitions to conceptualizing chemistry, this emerging field has the potential to significantly improve our understanding of chemistry and its connection to driving biological processes.