X-rays shine light on atoms at work in a chemical reaction
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
For more than 100 years, scientists have "peered" at atoms in a crystal by analysing the way they scatter X-rays. This process, known as crystallography, reveals the chemical structure of compounds in the crystal and has applications so wide-ranging – from drugs to new materials – that it has become central to how science is done.