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Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Photonics, December 2011
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Title
Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements
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Nature Photonics, December 2011
DOI 10.1038/nphoton.2011.297
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Anton Barty, Carl Caleman, Andrew Aquila, Nicusor Timneanu, Lukas Lomb, Thomas A. White, Jakob Andreasson, David Arnlund, Saša Bajt, Thomas R. M. Barends, Miriam Barthelmess, Michael J. Bogan, Christoph Bostedt, John D. Bozek, Ryan Coffee, Nicola Coppola, Jan Davidsson, Daniel P. DePonte, R. Bruce Doak, Tomas Ekeberg, Veit Elser, Sascha W. Epp, Benjamin Erk, Holger Fleckenstein, Lutz Foucar, Petra Fromme, Heinz Graafsma, Lars Gumprecht, Janos Hajdu, Christina Y. Hampton, Robert Hartmann, Andreas Hartmann, Günter Hauser, Helmut Hirsemann, Peter Holl, Mark S. Hunter, Linda Johansson, Stephan Kassemeyer, Nils Kimmel, Richard A. Kirian, Mengning Liang, Filipe R. N. C. Maia, Erik Malmerberg, Stefano Marchesini, Andrew V. Martin, Karol Nass, Richard Neutze, Christian Reich, Daniel Rolles, Benedikt Rudek, Artem Rudenko, Howard Scott, Ilme Schlichting, Joachim Schulz, M. Marvin Seibert, Robert L. Shoeman, Raymond G. Sierra, Heike Soltau, John C. H. Spence, Francesco Stellato, Stephan Stern, Lothar Strüder, Joachim Ullrich, X. Wang, Georg Weidenspointner, Uwe Weierstall, Cornelia B. Wunderer, Henry N. Chapman

Abstract

X-ray free-electron lasers have enabled new approaches to the structural determination of protein crystals that are too small or radiation-sensitive for conventional analysis(1). For sufficiently short pulses, diffraction is collected before significant changes occur to the sample, and it has been predicted that pulses as short as 10 fs may be required to acquire atomic-resolution structural information(1-4). Here, we describe a mechanism unique to ultrafast, ultra-intense X-ray experiments that allows structural information to be collected from crystalline samples using high radiation doses without the requirement for the pulse to terminate before the onset of sample damage. Instead, the diffracted X-rays are gated by a rapid loss of crystalline periodicity, producing apparent pulse lengths significantly shorter than the duration of the incident pulse. The shortest apparent pulse lengths occur at the highest resolution, and our measurements indicate that current X-ray free-electron laser technology(5) should enable structural determination from submicrometre protein crystals with atomic resolution.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 7 3%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 225 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 73 31%
Researcher 71 30%
Student > Master 21 9%
Student > Bachelor 14 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 4%
Other 26 11%
Unknown 20 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 101 43%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 36 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 24 10%
Chemistry 20 9%
Engineering 14 6%
Other 13 6%
Unknown 27 11%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 September 2020.
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#1,792,302
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