AIC School 2023 – ELECTRON CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: A deep dive into nanocrystals

The interest in electron diffraction (ED) has significantly increased in the last ten years in parallel with the automation of routines for data collection, usually performed with a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Three-dimensional electron diffraction (3DED) or microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) has addressed the challenges of multi-scattering (dynamical effects) in in-zone patterns, allowing for the acquisition of structural data from single crystals of very small dimensions, regardless of the nearby presence of other phases. Therefore, 3DED was successful for the structure determination of a number of inorganic and organic new compounds that were previously considered intractable by X-ray diffraction methods, thanks to the greater sensitivity of this technique to light atoms, ionic charges, and absolute structure in chiral compounds.

The AIC2023 School will focus on the currently available procedures for 3DED analysis.