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Volume 11,

Issue 4,

July 2024

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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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| August 30 2024

Laser-induced electron diffraction: Imaging of a single gas-phase molecular structure with one of its own electrons

K. Chirvi, J. Biegert

Among the many methods to image molecular structure, laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED) can image a single gas-phase molecule by locating all of a molecule's atoms in space and time. The ...

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| August 19 2024

Role of crystal orientation in attosecond photoinjection dynamics of germanium

Nicola Di Palo, Lyudmyla Adamska et al.

Understanding photoinjection in semiconductors—a fundamental physical process—represents the first step toward devising new opto-electronic devices, capable of operating on unprecedented time scales. ...

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| August 19 2024

Deconvolution of dynamic heterogeneity in protein structure

Zhong Ren, Xiaojing Yang

Heterogeneity is intrinsic to the dynamic process of a chemical reaction. As reactants are converted to products via intermediates, the nature and extent of heterogeneity vary temporally throughout ...

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| May 17 2024

Identifying protein conformational states in the Protein Data Bank: Toward unlocking the potential of integrative dynamics studies

Joseph I. J. Ellaway, Stephen Anyango et al.

Studying protein dynamics and conformational heterogeneity is crucial for understanding biomolecular systems and treating disease. Despite the deposition of over 215 000 macromolecular structures in ...

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| March 12 2024

Structural dynamics at surfaces by ultrafast reflection high-energy electron diffraction

Michael Horn-von Hoegen

Many fundamental processes of structural changes at surfaces occur on a pico- or femtosecond timescale. In order to study such ultrafast processes, we have combined modern surface science techniques ...

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| January 31 2024

Blue and red in the protein world: Photoactive yellow protein and phytochromes as revealed by time-resolved crystallography

Marius Schmidt, Emina A. Stojković

Time-resolved crystallography (TRX) is a method designed to investigate functional motions of biological macromolecules on all time scales. Originally a synchrotron-based method, TRX is enabled by ...

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| July 24 2024

Appraising protein conformational changes by resampling time-resolved serial x-ray crystallography data

Adams Vallejos, Gergely Katona et al.

With the development of serial crystallography at both x-ray free electron laser and synchrotron radiation sources, time-resolved x-ray crystallography is increasingly being applied to study ...

Review Article

| May 01 2024

A comparative review of time-resolved x-ray and electron scattering to probe structural dynamics

Yunbeom Lee, Key Young Oang et al.

The structure of molecules, particularly the dynamic changes in structure, plays an essential role in understanding physical and chemical phenomena. Time-resolved (TR) scattering techniques serve as ...

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| April 04 2024

Nanoscale x-ray imaging with high spectral sensitivity using fluorescence intensity correlations

Tamme Wollweber, Kartik Ayyer

This paper introduces spectral incoherent diffractive imaging (SIDI) as a novel method for achieving dark-field imaging of nanostructures with heterogeneous oxidation states. With SIDI, shifts in ...

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