Overview

In recent years technological advances in synchrotron and neutron sources, detectors, and computer hardware and software have allowed diffraction techniques to advance to a stage where data can be collected on a system with time. In this book for the first time reviews and research articles are brought together covering the three branches of time-resolved diffraction X-ray, electron and neutron field, each being allocated a separate section of the book. Time-Resolved Diffraction covers all forms of matter (i.e. gases, liquids, amorphous solids, fibres and crystals) and does so within a multidisciplinary framework which takes in examples from molecular biology and chemistry, as well as techniques from physics and materials science. The time range of data collection covers ten orders, from the sub-pico domain at the quickest, to the kilosecond at the slowest. Research scientists and postgraduates will find this book most useful as it is the only work available to provide an exposition of all areas of this developing field.

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Author:   J. R Helliwell (Professor of Structural Chemistry, Professor of Structural Chemistry, University of Manchester) ,  P. M. Rentzepis (Presidential Chair and Professor of Chemistry, Presidential Chair and Professor of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.838kg
ISBN:  

9780198500322

ISBN 10:   0198500327
Pages:   454
Publication Date:   18 December 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Picosecond hard X-ray pulses and their application to time resolved diffraction 2: Ultrafast X-ray diffraction and absorption 3: Laser-plasma X-ray emission: its creation, diagnosis and use in applications 4: X-ray diffraction dynamics of shock-compressed crystals 5: Materials science opportunities using time-resolved synchrotron X-ray scattering 6: Overview of time-resolved macromolecular crystallography 7: Laue and monochromatic technique developments for time-resolved biological and perturbation chemical crystallography 8: Time-resolved protein crystal diffraction: determination by the Laue method of the behaviour of the enzyme hydroxymethylbilane synthase (Lys59Gln mutant) as it is loaded with substrate in the crystal 9: The realization of 100 ps Laue diffraction on ID09 and shortcuts to 100 fs time-resolution in X-ray scattering experiments 10: High performance detectors for time-resolved non-crystalline X-ray diffraction 11: Theory of ultrafast time-resolved X-ray and electron diffraction 12: Time-resolved surface electron diffraction 13: Time-resolved electron diffraction: a method to study the structural and vibrational kinetics of photoexcited molecules 14: Time-resolved electron diffraction and microscopy studies of membrane proteins 15: Pulsed neutron diffraction: new opportunities in time-resolved crystallography

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...it is...a useful addition to the research library with material which would be equally at home in a series on laser science and its applications. * Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (1998), vol. 5 * ...contains an excellent chapter on the realization of single-pulse Laue diffraction and shortcuts to 100 fs resolution using the ESRF (the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)...There is a definitive chapter on TRED, a technique which should help give a more complete view of the coherent nuclear dynamics of laser-excited systems and a good review of time resolution applied to RHEED and LEED - activities still in their infancy. * Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (1998), vol. 5 *

`...contains an excellent chapter on the realization of single-pulse Laue diffraction and shortcuts to 100 fs resolution using the ESRF (the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)...There is a definitive chapter on TRED, a technique which should help give a more complete view of the coherent nuclear dynamics of laser-excited systems and a good review of time resolution applied to RHEED and LEED -- activities still in their infancy.' Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (1998), vol. 5 `...it is...a useful addition to the research library with material which would be equally at home in a series on laser science and its applications.' Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (1998), vol. 5

...contains an excellent chapter on the realization of single-pulse Laue diffraction and shortcuts to 100 fs resolution using the ESRF (the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)...There is a definitive chapter on TRED, a technique which should help give a more complete view of the coherent nuclear dynamics of laser-excited systems and a good review of time resolution applied to RHEED and LEED - activities still in their infancy. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (1998), vol. 5 ...it is...a useful addition to the research library with material which would be equally at home in a series on laser science and its applications. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (1998), vol. 5

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