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Title: Current Status of Single Particle Imaging with X-ray Lasers

Abstract

The advent of ultrafast X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) opens the tantalizing possibility of the atomic-resolution imaging of reproducible objects such as viruses, nanoparticles, single molecules, clusters, and perhaps biological cells, achieving a resolution for single particle imaging better than a few tens of nanometers. Improving upon this is a significant challenge which has been the focus of a global single particle imaging (SPI) initiative launched in December 2014 at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA. A roadmap was outlined, and significant multi-disciplinary effort has since been devoted to work on the technical challenges of SPI such as radiation damage, beam characterization, beamline instrumentation and optics, sample preparation and delivery and algorithm development at multiple institutions involved in the SPI initiative. Currently, the SPI initiative has achieved 3D imaging of rice dwarf virus (RDV) and coliphage PR772 viruses at ~10 nm resolution by using soft X-ray FEL pulses at the Atomic Molecular and Optical (AMO) instrument of LCLS. Meanwhile, diffraction patterns with signal above noise up to the corner of the detector with a resolution of ~6 Ångström (Å) were also recorded with hard X-rays at the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) instrument, also at LCLS. Achievingmore » atomic resolution is truly a grand challenge and there is still a long way to go in light of recent developments in electron microscopy. However, the potential for studying dynamics at physiological conditions and capturing ultrafast biological, chemical and physical processes represents a tremendous potential application, attracting continued interest in pursuing further method development. In this paper, we give a brief introduction of SPI developments and look ahead to further method development.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2]
  1. Shandong Univ., Jinan (China). State Key Lab. of Crystal Materials; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source; ShanghaiTech Univ. (China). School of Physical Science and Technology
  2. ShanghaiTech Univ. (China). School of Physical Science and Technology
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source; Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); ShanghaiTech Univ. (China); Shandong Univ., Jinan (China)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Major State Basic Research Development Program of China; China Scholarship Council
OSTI Identifier:
1425395
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; 31430031; 2014CB910401
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Applied Sciences
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher:
MDPI
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; x-ray free-electron lasers; XFEL; coherent diffraction imaging; single particle imaging; resolution

Citation Formats

Sun, Zhibin, Fan, Jiadong, Li, Haoyuan, and Jiang, Huaidong. Current Status of Single Particle Imaging with X-ray Lasers. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.3390/app8010132.
Sun, Zhibin, Fan, Jiadong, Li, Haoyuan, & Jiang, Huaidong. Current Status of Single Particle Imaging with X-ray Lasers. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/app8010132
Sun, Zhibin, Fan, Jiadong, Li, Haoyuan, and Jiang, Huaidong. Mon . "Current Status of Single Particle Imaging with X-ray Lasers". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/app8010132. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1425395.
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title = {Current Status of Single Particle Imaging with X-ray Lasers},
author = {Sun, Zhibin and Fan, Jiadong and Li, Haoyuan and Jiang, Huaidong},
abstractNote = {The advent of ultrafast X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) opens the tantalizing possibility of the atomic-resolution imaging of reproducible objects such as viruses, nanoparticles, single molecules, clusters, and perhaps biological cells, achieving a resolution for single particle imaging better than a few tens of nanometers. Improving upon this is a significant challenge which has been the focus of a global single particle imaging (SPI) initiative launched in December 2014 at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA. A roadmap was outlined, and significant multi-disciplinary effort has since been devoted to work on the technical challenges of SPI such as radiation damage, beam characterization, beamline instrumentation and optics, sample preparation and delivery and algorithm development at multiple institutions involved in the SPI initiative. Currently, the SPI initiative has achieved 3D imaging of rice dwarf virus (RDV) and coliphage PR772 viruses at ~10 nm resolution by using soft X-ray FEL pulses at the Atomic Molecular and Optical (AMO) instrument of LCLS. Meanwhile, diffraction patterns with signal above noise up to the corner of the detector with a resolution of ~6 Ångström (Å) were also recorded with hard X-rays at the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) instrument, also at LCLS. Achieving atomic resolution is truly a grand challenge and there is still a long way to go in light of recent developments in electron microscopy. However, the potential for studying dynamics at physiological conditions and capturing ultrafast biological, chemical and physical processes represents a tremendous potential application, attracting continued interest in pursuing further method development. In this paper, we give a brief introduction of SPI developments and look ahead to further method development.},
doi = {10.3390/app8010132},
journal = {Applied Sciences},
number = 1,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Mon Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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