Capturing the evolving geometric and electronic structure in the course of a chemical
reaction or biological process is the principal aim of time-resolved X-ray spectroscopies …

Since the discovery of X-ray diffraction and its potential to elucidate crystal symmetry,
powder X-ray diffraction has found diverse applications in the field of pharmaceutical …

The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) contains a complete record of all published
organic and metal–organic small-molecule crystal structures. The database has been in …

We report experimental results on x-ray diffraction of quantum-state-selected and strongly
aligned ensembles of the prototypical asymmetric rotor molecule 2, 5-diiodobenzonitrile …

A new approach for collecting data from many hundreds of thousands of microcrystals using
X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser has recently been developed. Referred to as serial …

Phase retrieval is a long-standing problem in imaging when only the intensity of the
wavefield can be recorded. Coherent diffraction imaging is a lensless technique that uses …

Extreme-ultraviolet to x-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) in operation for scientific applications
are up to now single-user facilities. While most FELs generate around 100 photon pulses …

The coherence and dephasing of vibrational motions of molecules constitute an integral part
of chemical dynamics, influence material properties and underpin schemes to control …

The ultrafast structural dynamics of water following inner-shell ionization is a crucial issue in
high-energy radiation chemistry. We have exposed isolated water molecules to a short x-ray …

Recording molecular movies on ultrafast timescales has been a longstanding goal for
unravelling detailed information about molecular dynamics. Here we present the direct …