Mathematical Basis for X-Ray Crystallography and Analysis of Diffraction Patterns
Files
Download
Download Video (10.6 MB)
Date
7-26-2016
Description
Features of soft self-assembled materials such as liquid crystals and block copolymers. Approaches to solving the phase problem. Example of how to reconstruct electron density of a simple model system (silver behenate). Time 11:44.
Keywords
Phase problem, liquid crystal, block copolymer, electron density, silver behenate
Disciplines
Mathematics | Physics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Comments
Videos 3.1-3.9 are the most mathematical in the series, and require some knowledge of vectors and calculus. The most calculus-heavy videos are 3.1-3.5, and these can be skipped by those with less mathematical background.