Dear Crystallographers, is there any reason why we are not considering using super-intense femtosecond electron bursts, instead of photons? Since the scattering of electrons is much more efficient, and because they can be focussed to solve the phase problem, it seems that it might be worthwhile to explore that route of single-molecule structure solution by using electrospray techniques similar to the recently-reported results using the FEL. Is there some technical limitation which would hinder this possibility?
JPK -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program cel: 773.608.9185 email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu *******************************************
