Applications
Where electron diffraction changes the answer.
Thirty days to grow a crystal for X-ray – or an electron-diffraction dataset in minutes, roughly a thousand times faster (febuxostat, CrystEngComm 2024). The solid-form questions electron diffraction answers, across pharma, agrochem, battery, biomaterials and materials.
Pharmaceutical solid-form ID
Polymorphs, salts, cocrystals and hydrates – resolved when the crystals are too small to grow for single-crystal X-ray.
Impurity & trace-phase analysis
Identify phases present below the powder-diffraction detection threshold, at the single-crystallite level.
Scarce & precious material
Complete structures from milligram-scale samples – early-stage APIs, precious batches and forensic amounts too small to crystallise for single-crystal X-ray.
Agrochemicals & fine chemicals
Solid-form characterisation for compounds that resist conventional crystallography.
By sector
Where electron diffraction delivers
Pharmaceuticals
Polymorphs, salts and co-crystals, absolute configuration and impurity identification – from milligram-scale samples.
Agrochemicals
Actives and formulations where crystals are too small or scarce for single-crystal X-ray.
Battery & energy materials
Cathode, electrolyte and other functional materials at the nanoscale.
Biomaterials
Peptides, small biomolecules and related structures.
Materials science
Catalysts, MOFs, pigments and fine chemicals.
From screening to certainty
One method, across the solid-form workflow.
Whether you're screening polymorphs, chasing a trace impurity, confirming absolute configuration or working from milligrams of a precious batch, electron diffraction returns a definitive structure – where powder methods stop at a fingerprint and single-crystal X-ray needs crystals you often can't grow.
Every area here is backed by worked examples in our library – real samples, real structures, with the data and reports behind them.
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