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Title: Chemical Crystallography at the Advanced Light Source

Journal Article · · Crystals
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7120382· OSTI ID:1433110
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS); Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom). School of Chemistry and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS); Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Chemical crystallography at synchrotrons was pioneered at the Daresbury SRS station 9.8. The chemical crystallography beamlines at the Advanced Light Source seek to follow that example, with orders of magnitude more flux than a lab source, and various in situ experiments. This article thus attempts to answer why a chemist would require synchrotron X-rays, to describe the techniques available at the ALS chemical crystallography beamlines, and place the current facilities in a historical context.

Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies (CGS); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Univ. of Edinburgh (Scotland)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; EAR 1606856; DE-SC0001015
OSTI ID:
1433110
Journal Information:
Crystals, Vol. 7, Issue 12; Related Information: © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.; ISSN 2073-4352
Publisher:
MDPICopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 5 works
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