crystallography

Also known as crystallogy, crystallology, leptology, leptonology

thumb|A crystalline solid: atomic resolution image of strontium titanate. Brighter spots are columns of [[strontium atoms and darker ones are titanium-oxygen columns.]] thumb|Octahedral and tetrahedral interstitial sites in a face centered cubic structure thumb|Kikuchi lines (physics)|Kikuchi lines in an [[electron backscatter diffraction pattern of monocrystalline silicon, taken at 20 kV with a field-emission electron source]]

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Crystallography is the study of the atomic structure and arrangement of crystalline materials, which scientists can visualize using techniques like electron microscopy that reveal individual atoms and their patterns. This field matters because understanding how atoms are organized in crystals helps us characterize materials and design new ones with desired properties.

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185,690 papers

X-Ray Crystallography of Viruses.ReviewSub-cellular biochemistry · 2024Verdaguer N, Ferrer-Orta C, Garriga DDOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-65187-8_4
Serial Crystallography for Structure-Based Drug Discovery.ReviewTrends in pharmacological sciences · 2020Zhu L, Chen X, Abola EE et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2020.08.009
Crystallography of polysaccharides: Current state and challenges.ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology · 2022Ogawa Y, Putaux JL, Nishiyama YDOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2022.102183
Macromolecular room temperature crystallography.ReviewQuarterly reviews of biophysics · 2021Fischer MDOI: 10.1017/S0033583520000128
Protein Structure Analysis and Validation with X-Ray Crystallography.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021Papageorgiou AC, Poudel N, Mattsson JDOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0775-6_25
Synthetic antibodies for accelerated RNA crystallography.ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA · 2024DasGupta SDOI: 10.1002/wrna.1869
Neutron crystallography for the elucidation of enzyme catalysis.ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology · 2021Kono F, Tamada TDOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2021.05.007
Protein crystallography: alive and well.The FEBS journal · 2021Wlodawer ADOI: 10.1111/febs.15822

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Crystallography is the branch of science devoted to the study of molecular and crystalline structure and properties. The word crystallography is derived from the Ancient Greek word (; "clear ice, rock-crystal"), and (; "to write"). In July 2012, the United Nations recognised the importance of the science of crystallography by proclaiming 2014 the International Year of Crystallography.