The world’s first dedicated horizontal electron diffractometer

Introducing the ELDICO ED-1, the world’s first dedicated horizontal electron diffractometer by ELDICO Scientific. Engineered with Swiss precision and innovation, it offers unrivaled structure elucidation of nano-sized particles. With flexibility in mind, featuring a cutting-edge goniometer, reduced distortion and advanced automation, it’s set to revolutionize electron diffraction for diverse scientific applications

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Electron diffraction (microED) measurement service

ELDICO Scientific is world leader CRO for electron diffraction (microED) measurements. Beyond crystal structure determination on nanosized materials, we provide comprehensive solutions for solid-state characterization. With two cutting-edge electron diffractometers, a glovebox to handle air-sensitive materials, backed by over three decades of crystallography expertise, we ensure precise results with short lead times and transparent pricing for customers active in pharmaceutical, energy storage and advance material industry

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Scientific collaboration or application development

At ELDICO Scientific, we specialize in scientific collaboration and application development. With the ELDICO ED-1′s flexible design and software, customization for new applications is seamless, empowering researchers to explore uncharted fields unreachable by other technologies.

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Join the USA Summit on Drug Development

ELDICO and Triclinic Labs are organising complimentary half-day seminars in San Francesco, San Diego, Newark and Boston that will introduce you to new methods and techniques (e.i. microED) designed to improve your drug development program.

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PRODUCT AND SERVICES

Worlds first dedicated horizontal electron diffractometer

ELDICO ED-1

ELDICO ED-1 is the world’s first dedicated horizontal electron diffractometer. Engineered with Swiss precision and innovation together with established partners, it offers unrivaled structure elucidation of nano-sized particles. With flexibility in mind, featuring a cutting-edge goniometer, reduced distortion and advanced automation, it’s set to be the standard for revolutionize electron diffraction measurements for diverse scientific applications.

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World leader in electron diffraction services

Electron diffraction (microED) measurement service

ELDICO Scientific is world leader CRO for electron diffraction (microED) measurements. Beyond crystal structure determination on nanosized materials, we provide comprehensive solutions for solid-state characterization. With two cutting-edge electron diffractometers (ELDICO ED-1), a glovebox to handle air-sensitive materials, backed by over more than three decades of crystallography expertise, we ensure precise results with short lead times and transparent pricing for customers active in pharmaceutical, energy storage and advance material industry.

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Scientific collaboration and application development

Scientific collaboration/ new application development

Scientific collaboration/application development

At ELDICO Scientific, we specialize in scientific collaboration and application development. With the ELDICO ED-1’s flexible design and software, customization for new applications is seamless, empowering researchers to explore uncharted fields unreachable by other technologies.

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Latest news from ELDICO

New application note: Biogenic Crystal Structure determination with electron diffraction

1 April 2024

Download our latest application note about Biogenic crystals? Together with scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Cardiff University Eldico achieved a significant breakthrough in the structural determination of biogenic crystals from 3D electron diffraction (3D ED) data measured with the ELDICO ED-1. We successfully determined the structure of individual crystals of biogenic guanine directly extracted from spider integument, scallop eyes and fish scales.

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$electron diffractometer delivered to MPI$

ELDICO ED-1 Electron Diffractometer delivered to Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

17 April 2024

ELDICO Scientific AG is happy to announce the successful delivery and installation of the ED-1 at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. The new large scale instrument has been provided to evaluate whether it can usefully complement the analytical capabilities of the Institute’s Chemical Crystallography department. The ELDICO ED-1 will extent the existing range of techniques, including SC-XRD, PXRD, SEM and TEM, broadening the range of solid compound analysis available to researchers at the MPI für Kohlenforschung.

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Join our next webinar: Identify conglomerates using electron diffraction

This webinar will discuss chiral discrimination in the solid state. This is crucial for chiral resolution and deracemization, which in turn determines the efficacy of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals. Several methods to identify conglomerates exist; however, the newest developments in electron diffraction are now capable of rapidly providing unambiguous information about the crystalline chirality, irrespective of whether these crystals consist of chiral or achiral molecules. It could rapidly evolve into an important tool to identify conglomerates for chiral resolution.

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ELDICO Scientific and TriClinic Labs, Inc. announce collaboration

ELDICO Scientific AG is delighted to announce an exceptional strategic collaboration with Triclinic Labs, Inc. The collaboration entails Triclinic Labs installing ELDICO’s innovative electron diffraction instrument, the ELDICO ED-1, at its labs in Indiana. Leveraging this advanced technology and software, Triclinic’s crystallography group will offer a wide range of services including crystal structure determination from nanocrystalline powders, absolute configuration determination, micro-crystallinity analysis in amorphous solid dispersions, and phase analysis of crystals in mixtures.

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FROM OUR TRUSTED CLIENTS’ LIST

Key opinion leaders on electron diffraction

We are in constant dialogue with research and manufacturing industries in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and advanced materials sector, as well as contract research organizations and academic research institutes.

Professor Jeroen van Bokhoven

Heterogeneous Catalysis in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biology, ETH Switzerland & Head of Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry (LSK) Paul Scherrer Institute

”The continued development and application of electron diffraction is particularly important because it enables structural analysis of individual crystals that are too small to be measured by X-ray diffraction.”
Dr. Mauro Gemmi

Director at the Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, PISA, Italy

”A dedicated device for electron diffraction would open up a lot of new possibilities. I see new possibilities in materials science, I see possibilities in pharmacology, in organic chemistry. I see incredible possibilities in the fields where what is critical is the size of the crystal.”
Professor Ute Kolb

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Centre for High Resolution Electron Microscopy / TU Darmstadt Institute of Applied Geosciences

”In order to solve structures not accessible by X-ray powder diffraction, it was necessary to improve the acquisition of diffraction data significantly. When, in 2007, the first ab-initio structural analysis of barite was performed, I did not yet realize that this would be the foundation for a widely applicable 3D electron diffraction method.”
Dr. Bernd Hinrichsen

Head of the XRD, Electron Microscopy and NMR Labs at BASF AG, Germany

”Over the past decades, electron diffraction has been a regular tool in our analyses of inorganic materials. ED instruments with proper, more tailored functionalities are required to adequately address the requirements of the crystallographic structure analysis community.”
Dr. Tim Gruene

Head of the Centre for X-ray Structure Analysis at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

”There are many diverse applications for electron diffraction in materials science and chemistry. Heterogeneous catalysts need to be very small to enlarge the relative surface. The grains are too small for X-ray crystallography, whereas ED makes it possible to determine their crystal structure at the original size.”
Dr. Lukas Palatinus

Head of Laboratory ED, FZU, Czech Republic

”Determination of the absolute configuration of organic molecules is essential in drug development and the subsequent approval process. This determination is possible thanks to electron diffraction using nanocrystalline material.”