Liquid application method for time-resolved analyses by serial synchrotron crystallography

Pedram Mehrabi1, Eike C Schulz1,2, Michael Agthe3

  • 1Max-Planck-Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Department for Atomically Resolved Dynamics, Hamburg, Germany.

Nature Methods
|September 19, 2019
PubMed

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