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X-ray imaging

The chemistry inside

To understand the properties of many useful materials, the chemical structures that form within them from elements of low relative atomic mass must be determined. A new X-ray imaging technique does just that.

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Figure 1: X-ray scattering for three-dimensional imaging.

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Schroer, C. The chemistry inside. Nature 476, 159–160 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/476159a

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