3D Electron Diffraction: The Nanocrystallography Revolution.
- Gemmi M Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza S. Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy.
- Mugnaioli E Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza S. Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy.
- Gorelik TE University of Ulm, Central Facility for Electron Microscopy, Electron Microscopy Group of Materials Science (EMMS), Albert Einstein Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
- Kolb U Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Analytische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
- Palatinus L Department of Structure Analysis, Institute of Physics of the CAS, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czechia.
- Boullay P CRISMAT, Normandie Université, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS UMR 6508, 6 Bd Maréchal Juin, F-14050 Cedex Caen, France.
- Hovmöller S Inorganic and Structural Chemistry, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
- Abrahams JP Center for Cellular Imaging and NanoAnalytics (C-CINA), Biozentrum, Basel University, Mattenstrasse 26, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland.
- 2019-09-05
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- ACS central science. - 2019
English
Crystallography of nanocrystalline materials has witnessed a true revolution in the past 10 years, thanks to the introduction of protocols for 3D acquisition and analysis of electron diffraction data. This method provides single-crystal data of structure solution and refinement quality, allowing the atomic structure determination of those materials that remained hitherto unknown because of their limited crystallinity. Several experimental protocols exist, which share the common idea of sampling a sequence of diffraction patterns while the crystal is tilted around a noncrystallographic axis, namely, the goniometer axis of the transmission electron microscope sample stage. This Outlook reviews most important 3D electron diffraction applications for different kinds of samples and problematics, related with both materials and life sciences. Structure refinement including dynamical scattering is also briefly discussed.
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- DOI 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00394
- PMID 31482114
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