Single Particle X-ray Diffractive Imaging
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- 21 December 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Nano Letters
- Vol. 8 (1) , 310-316
- https://doi.org/10.1021/nl072728k
Abstract
In nanotechnology, strategies for the creation and manipulation of nanoparticles in the gas phase are critically important for surface modification and substrate-free characterization. Recent coherent diffractive imaging with intense femtosecond X-ray pulses has verified the capability of single-shot imaging of nanoscale objects at suboptical resolutions beyond the radiation-induced damage threshold. By intercepting electrospray-generated particles with a single 15 femtosecond soft-X-ray pulse, we demonstrate diffractive imaging of a nanoscale specimen in free flight for the first time, an important step toward imaging uncrystallized biomolecules.Keywords
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