Developments in experimental techniques in micro electron diffraction and serial X-ray crystallography provide the opportunity to collect diffraction data from protein nanocrystals. Incomplete unit cells on the surfaces of protein crystals can affect the distribution of diffracted intensities for crystals with very high surface-to-volume ratios. The extraction of structure factors from diffract...

An X-ray diffraction line will broaden considerably when steels change into martensitic structure on quenching. The results presented in this paper show that X-ray diffraction technique can be employed for a rapid and nondestructive measurement of hardness of hardened steel. Measurement on various quenched and tempered steels showed that the breadth of its diffraction peak increased with increa...

The use of glass capillaries (the so-called mono-capillaries) as incident beam optical module for X-ray micro-diffraction is evaluated. These mono-capillaries show a gain in intensity with a typical factor of three over traditional pinhole collimators. Procedures to improve the particle statistics of the measurement are discussed. Examples are shown on phase identification and preferred orienta...

Beamline 10.3.2 at the ALS is a bend-magnet line designed mostly for work on environmental problems involving heavy-metal speciation and location. It offers a unique combination of X-ray fluorescence mapping, X-ray microspectroscopy and micro-X-ray diffraction. The optics allow the user to trade spot size for flux in a size range of 5-17 microm in an energy range of 3-17 keV. The focusing uses ...

background: it has recently been shown that the particle size of materials used for radiation shielding can affect the magnitude of radiation attenuation. over the past years, application of nano-structured materials in radiation shielding has attracted attention world-wide. the purpose of this study was to investigate the shielding properties of the lead-free shields containing micro and nano-...

X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique due to it's strength for providing visualized atomic model of molecules, stands as first in the field of characterization of new synthesized molecules. Here, the analysis of diffraction data on discrete units of new, not yet fairly known structure of molecule $rm C_{52} H_{60} N_4 S_8 Zn_2$ is performed to obtain a quantitative view of the structure of the syst...