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Volume 10,

Issue 5,

September 2023

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Structural Dynamics focuses on recent developments in experimental and theoretical methods and techniques that explore electronic and geometric structure as well as the changes of chemical, biological, and condensed-matter systems over time. The community of scientists and engineers working on either structure or dynamics may work across diverse systems, but often share similar instrumentation and methods. Hence, the journal seeks to create connections across a variety of fields of study and also to support communications between these cultures. Structural Dynamics (SDY) is co-published by AIP Publishing and the ACA (The Structural Science Society), and it publishes articles from a global community of researchers that advance and promote crystallography and structural science.

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George N. Phillips, Jr.

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| November 13 2023

Simulation of ultrafast electron diffraction intensity under coherent acoustic phonons

Yongzhao Zhang, Jun Li et al.

Ultrafast electron diffraction has been proven to be a powerful tool for the study of coherent acoustic phonons owing to its high sensitivity to crystal structures. However, this sensitivity leads to ...

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| November 06 2023

A Δ-learning strategy for interpretation of spectroscopic observables

Luke Watson, Thomas Pope et al.

Accurate computations of experimental observables are essential for interpreting the high information content held within x-ray spectra. However, for complicated systems this can be difficult, a ...

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| November 06 2023

Photodiode-based time zero determination for ultrafast electron microscopy

S. T. Kempers, S. Borrelli et al.

Pump-probe experiments in ultrafast electron microscopy require temporal overlap between the pump and probe pulses. Accurate measurements of the time delay between them allows for the determination ...

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| October 03 2023

RF acceleration of ultracold electron bunches

D. F. J. Nijhof, T. C. H. de Raadt et al.

The ultrafast and ultracold electron source, based on laser cooling and trapping of atomic gas and its subsequent near-threshold two-step photoionization, is capable of generating electron bunches ...

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| September 15 2023

Nonequilibrium warm dense matter investigated with laser–plasma-based XANES down to the femtosecond

F. Dorchies, K. Ta Phuoc et al.

The use of laser–plasma-based x-ray sources is discussed, with a view to carrying out time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements, down to the femtosecond timescale. A review of recent ...

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| March 17 2023

Molecular size dependence on achievable resolution from XFEL single-particle 3D reconstruction

Miki Nakano, Osamu Miyashita et al.

Single-particle analysis using x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) is a novel method for obtaining structural information of samples in a state close to nature. In particular, it is suitable for ...

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| October 03 2023

Isotope effects in dynamics of water isotopologues induced by core ionization at an x-ray free-electron laser

R. Guillemin, L. Inhester et al.

Dynamical response of water exposed to x-rays is of utmost importance in a wealth of science areas. We exposed isolated water isotopologues to short x-ray pulses from a free-electron laser and ...

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| August 16 2023

Practical considerations for the analysis of time-resolved x-ray data

Marius Schmidt

The field of time-resolved macromolecular crystallography has been expanding rapidly after free electron lasers for hard x rays (XFELs) became available. Techniques to collect and process data from ...

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| June 15 2023

In crystallo observation of active site dynamics and transient metal ion binding within DNA polymerases

Caleb Chang, Grace Zhou et al.

DNA polymerases are the enzymatic catalysts that synthesize DNA during DNA replication and repair. Kinetic studies and x-ray crystallography have uncovered the overall kinetic pathway and led to a ...

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