Towards ETEM serial crystallography: Electron diffraction from liquid jets

D P Deponte; J T McKeown; U Weierstall; R B Doak; J C H Spence

doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.11.036

Towards ETEM serial crystallography: Electron diffraction from liquid jets

Ultramicroscopy. 2011 Jun;111(7):824-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.11.036. Epub 2010 Dec 1.

Authors

D P Deponte¹, J T McKeown, U Weierstall, R B Doak, J C H Spence

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 21146302
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.11.036

Abstract

A sufficiently thin column of liquid was produced to permit penetration with a 200 keV electron beam as evidenced by the observation of diffraction rings due to the intermolecular spacing of the liquid samples. For liquid thickness below 800 nm, the diffraction rings became visible above the inelastic background. Studies were carried out in the environmental chamber of a transmission electron microscope using water and isopropanol.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

2-Propanol / chemistry
Crystallography
Electrons*
Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / instrumentation
Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / methods*
Water / chemistry

Substances

Water
2-Propanol