JHU X-ray Crystallography Facility

"All we have discovered is that it starts with a single individual - always a child - and then spreads explosively, like the formation of crystals round the first nucleus in a saturated solution." Arthur C. Clarke (Childhood's End, 1953)

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Tips

Technique #1 (Crystal Growth): Solvent Evaporation

Technique #2 (Crystal Growth): Slow Cooling

Technique #3 (Crystal Growth): Vapor Diffusion (drawing excerpt from the book "X-ray Structure Determination - A Practical Guide" by G. H. Stout and L. H. Jensen)

Technique #4 (Crystal Growth): Liquid-Liquid Diffusion (drawing excerpt from the book "X-ray Structure Determination - A Practical Guide" by G. H. Stout and L. H. Jensen)