Instrumentation and applications for ED: a paper from Tim Gruene and Enrico Mugnaioli

Tim Gruene and Enrico Mugnaioli have co-published an insightful analysis on the latest developments in electron diffraction, both technique and instrumentation-wise. This well-documented paper re-enforces how important electron diffraction has become in the last months and connects the dots between industries, research subjects and the availability of proper instrumentation for nano-crystallography.

The two researchers have already presented during ELDICO’s ‘ED applied’ webinars. You can watch the recordings here.

The paper aims to fill the gap between users, technique, and instrumentation. In the last years we have witnessed an increase in the number of publications that share excellent results based on crystal structure determination by electron diffraction. Consequently, there is a need for a structured approach in offering general and practical information to structural chemists that might be interested to tackle the emerging field of electron diffraction.

What are the practical differences between technical characteristics of electron microscopes and electron diffractometers, also between X-ray and electron crystallography? Are there research aspects that are only accessible via electron diffraction and how does the technique complement X-ray diffraction? What are the papers that show results obtained with electron diffraction recently? These questions and many more are discussed in this extensive paper that can be read entirely here.

We thank the authors for mentioning ELDICO Scientific AG as an electron diffractometer manufacturer and the excellent analysis on the disruptive technique.

ELDICO Scientific presented its device during the ECM 2019. It was in Vienna when the first worldwide electron diffractometer concept was made public. Two years later, in Prague, during the IUCr Congress 2021 we unveiled the commercially available ED-1. If you want to learn more about the ELDICO ED-1, read this article or check the specs here. 

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