X-ray diffraction
- Crystal Growing Tips by Paul Boyle (University of Western Ontario) and Martin Lutz (Utrecht University)
- XRD Webinars by Bruker AXS: New and Archives
- Advanced Certificate in Powder Diffraction on the Web – School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London
- School of Crystallography (Open Access) – University of London
- X-ray diffraction on-line course by Joe Reibenspies (Texas A&M)
- X-ray diffraction Tools of the Trade by Joe Reibenspies (Texas A&M)
- X-ray diffraction on-line course by Patt Carrol (UPenn)
- Doug Powell education and notes
- Symmetry Tutorial – A PowerPoint based tutorial developed by Bruce Foxman
- A hypertext book of Crystallographic Space groups diagrams and tables
- Kevin Cowtan resource with interactive tutorials
- Escher Web Sketch
- Crystallography by Martin Martinez-Ripoll
- IUCr Pamphlets (at Teaching Commission)
- A non-mathematical Introduction to X-ray Diffraction
- An Introduction to the Scope, Potential and Applications of X-ray analysis
- Introduction to the Calculation of Structure Factors
- The reciprocal Lattice
- Close-Packed Structures
- Anomalous Dispersion of X-rays in Crystallography
- Rotation Matrices and Translation Vectors in Crystallography
- Elementary X-ray diffraction for Biologists
- Crystallography Open Database
- Bilbao Crystallographic service
- Search/Match with Sleve+ (youtube video from ICDD)
Videos
- A Century of Crystallography: the Braggs Legacy (by Royal Institution): This film from Diamond Light Source celebrates the work and lives of Sir William Henry Bragg and his son, Sir William Lawrence Bragg. Together, they established a new scientific discipline. A son with the theoretical understanding and father with the experimental technique to harness this knowledge.
- American Crystallographic Association Educational Videos
- Tutorial for indexing crystal planes and drawing planes given a miller index
- Fourier analysis and Guitar Jamming by Sixty Symbols
Refinement
Synchrotron/Neutron
- APS Sector/Beamline Locations & Phone Numbers
- APS Proposal Deadlines and Related Meetings
- X-ray anomalous scattering / plots of scattering coefficients f’ and f”
- Anomalous Dispersion of X-rays in Crystallography (IUCr)
- DAFS: Unifying X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption
- A community site for X-ray absorption fine-structure (XAFS) and related spectroscopies. This website provides numerous resources and tutorials on XAFS
- Bruce Ravel video presentations EXAFS
SAXS
- Irena and Nika software videos by Jan Ilavsky
- A small-Angle Scattering blog by Brian Richard Pauw: A SA(X)S Weblog [Looking_at_Nothing]. A great resource for SAXS technique. Many educational videos. Check out Live Fourier transform demonstration by the author.
- Introduction to BioSAXS webinar Part I
- Introduction to BioSAXS webinar Part II
XPS
- NIST XPS Database
- Thermo Scientific XPS Knowledgebase Table of Elements – XPS simplified
- XPS Interpretation and curve fitting procedures – XPS fitting
- Introduction to surface chemistry: online resource by Roger Nix (Queen Mary, University of London). Includes an excellent overview of surface analytical techniques (including XPS)
- Introduction to XPS by Dmitry Zemlyanov (Purdue University)
- Curve fitting Art by K. Artyushkova (the University of New Mexico)
Materials Suppliers
Additional Resources
- Crystallography Timeline: Explore the history of one of the greatest innovations of the twentieth century
- X-Forum – A crystallographic web forum
- Crystals@Otterbein – symmetry and packing visualizations and other crystallographic resources
- International Union of Crystallography list of educational resources
- American Crystallographic Association
- Crystallography 101
- Collaborative Computational Project Number 14 (CCP14)
- Cambridge Database Teaching subset
- Crystallography365: Blogged a new structure a day in 2014
- Software for macromolecular crystallography (ccp4)
- Phenix – macromolecular crystallography
Nobel Prize Winners Associated with Crystallography
2013 M. Karplus, M. Levitt and A. Warshel For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
2012 R. J. Lefkowitz and B. K. Kobilka For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors
2011 D. Shechtman For the discovery of quasicrystals
2010 A. Geim and K. Novoselov For groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene
2009 V. Ramakrishnan, T. A. Steitz and A. E. Yonath Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
2006 R. D. Kornberg Studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
2003 P. Agre and R. MacKinnon Discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
1997 P. D. Boyer, J. E. Walker and J. C. Skou Elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme
1996 R.Curl, H. Kroto and R. Smalley Discovery of the fullerene form of carbon
1994 C. Shull and N. Brockhouse Neutron diffraction
1992 G. Charpak Discovery of the multi wire proportional chamber
1991 P.-G. de Gennes Methods of discovering order in simple systems can be applied to polymers and liquid crystals
1988 J. Deisenhofer, R. Huber and H. Michel For the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre
1985 H. Hauptman and J. Karle Development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures
1982 A. Klug Development of crystallographic electron microscopy and discovery of the structure of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes
1976 W. N. Lipscomb Structure of boranes
1972 C. B. Anfinsen Folding of protein chains
1964 D. Hodgkin Structure of many biochemical substances including Vitamin B12
1962 F. Crick, J. Watson and M. Wilkins The helical structure of DNA
1962 J. C. Kendrew and M. Perutz For their studies of the structures of globular proteins
1954 L. C. Pauling For his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances
1946 J. B. Sumner For his discovery that enzymes can be crystallised
1937 C. J. Davisson and G. Thompson Diffraction of electrons by crystals
1936 P. J. W. Debye For his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases
1929 L.-V. de Broglie The wave nature of the electron
1917 C. G. Barkla Discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements
1915 W. H. Bragg and W. L. Bragg Use of X-rays to determine crystal structure
1914 M. Von Laue Diffraction of X-rays by crystals
1901 W. C. Röntgen Discovery of X-rays
