Dear Jacob, Ahmed Zewail's papers are worth consulting on this, although not protein/bio. See also the book by Zewail and Thomas, recently published, easily findable on amazon etc, as a handy overview. Best wishes, John
Prof John R Helliwell DSc On 14 Apr 2011, at 14:38, Jacob Keller <j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu> wrote: > 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 > *******************************************