jgluz at MAIL.MED.CORNELL.EDU wrote:
: Thanks to all the folks who took time to respond to my last inquiry
: about mounting crystals. Now another matter. I have two forms of my
: crystal: one with cofactor and one with sustrate. The former grows as a
: thin rectangular plate. I can see the edge but otherwise the crystals
: are quite thin. I was told thin crystals are not useful for x-ray
: analysis.
Dear John,
Thin crystals are ideal for electron diffraction, however. If they
are ~100 A thick, electron crystallography is quite feasable--and they may
give quasi-kinematic scattering if they are 2 or 3 times thicker.
Yours,
Bill Tivol
