main editor for physics and free electron laser science and technology

J. C. H. SpenceDepartment of Physics, Arizona State University, Rural Rd, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA (e-mail: spence@asu.edu)

co-editors

H. ChapmanCenter for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY/Universität Hamburg, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany (e-mail: henry.chapman@desy.de)
D. GratiasIRCP Chimie-ParisTech, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 750005 Paris, France (e-mail: denis.gratias@chimie-paristech.fr)
T. IshikawaCoherent X-ray Optics Laboratory, Harima Institute, RIKEN, Kouto 1-1-1, Mikazuki-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan (e-mail: ishikawa@spring8.or.jp)
E. E. LattmanDepartment of Structural Biology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo NY 14203, USA (e-mail: lattman@hwi.buffalo.edu)

articles in this subject area

Rapid sample delivery for megahertz serial crystallography at X-ray FELs. M. O. Wiedorn, S. Awel, A. J. Morgan, K. Ayyer, Y. Gevorkov, H. Fleckenstein, N. Roth, L. Adriano, R. Bean, K. R. Beyerlein, J. Chen, J. Coe, F. Cruz-Mazo, T. Ekeberg, R. Graceffa, M. Heymann, D. A. Horke, J. Knoška, V. Mariani, R. Nazari, D. Oberthür, A. K. Samanta, R. G. Sierra, C. A. Stan, O. Yefanov, D. Rompotis, J. Correa, B. Erk, R. Treusch, J. Schulz, B. G. Hogue, A. M. Gañán-Calvo, P. Fromme, J. Küpper, A. V. Rode, S. Bajt, R. A. Kirian & H. N. Chapman (2018). IUCrJ 5, 574-584. 
Considerations for three-dimensional image reconstruction from experimental data in coherent diffractive imaging. I. V. Lundholm, J. A. Sellberg, T. Ekeberg, M. F. Hantke, K. Okamoto, G. van der Schot, J. Andreasson, A. Barty, J. Bielecki, P. Bruza, M. Bucher, S. Carron, B. J. Daurer, K. Ferguson, D. Hasse, J. Krzywinski, D. S. D. Larsson, A. Morgan, K. Mühlig, M. Müller, C. Nettelblad, A. Pietrini, H. K. N. Reddy, D. Rupp, M. Sauppe, M. Seibert, M. Svenda, M. Swiggers, N. Timneanu, A. Ulmer, D. Westphal, G. Williams, A. Zani, G. Faigel, H. N. Chapman, T. Möller, C. Bostedt, J. Hajdu, T. Gorkhover & F. R. N. C. Maia (2018). IUCrJ 5, 531-541. 
Exploiting superspace to clarify vacancy and Al/Si ordering in mullite. P. B. Klar, I. Etxebarria & G. Madariaga (2018). IUCrJ 5, 497-509. 
X-ray lasers for structure and dynamics in biology. J. C. H. Spence (2018). IUCrJ 5, 236-237. 
Resolution extension by image summing in serial femtosecond crystallography of two-dimensional membrane-protein crystals. C. M. Casadei, C.-J. Tsai, A. Barty, M. S. Hunter, N. A. Zatsepin, C. Padeste, G. Capitani, W. H. Benner, S. Boutet, S. P. Hau-Riege, C. Kupitz, M. Messerschmidt, J. I. Ogren, T. Pardini, K. J. Rothschild, L. Sala, B. Segelke, G. J. Williams, J. E. Evans, X.-D. Li, M. Coleman, B. Pedrini & M. Frank (2018). IUCrJ 5, 103-117. 
An unprecedented dioxygen species revealed by serial femtosecond rotation crystallography in copper nitrite reductase. T. P. Halsted, K. Yamashita, K. Hirata, H. Ago, G. Ueno, T. Tosha, R. R. Eady, S. V. Antonyuk, M. Yamamoto & S. S. Hasnain (2018). IUCrJ 5, 22-31. 
Signal-to-noise, spatial resolution and information capacity of coherent diffraction imaging. T. E. Gureyev, A. Kozlov, Y. I. Nesterets, D. M. Paganin, A. V. Martin & H. M. Quiney (2018). IUCrJ 5, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252518010941. 
Single-particle imaging without symmetry constraints at an X-ray free-electron laser. M. Rose, S. Bobkov, K. Ayyer, R. P. Kurta, D. Dzhigaev, Y. Y. Kim, A. J. Morgan, C. H. Yoon, D. Westphal, J. Bielecki, J. A. Sellberg, G. Williams, F. R. N. C. Maia, O. M. Yefanov, V. Ilyin, A. P. Mancuso, H. N. Chapman, B. G. Hogue, A. Aquila, A. Barty & I. A. Vartanyants (2018). IUCrJ 5, https://doi.org/10.1107/S205225251801120X. 
Three-beam convergent-beam electron diffraction for measuring crystallographic phases. Y. Guo, P. N. H. Nakashima & J. Etheridge (2018). IUCrJ 5, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252518012216. 
Towards the theoretical limitations of X-ray nanocrystallography at high intensity: the validity of the effective-form-factor description. M. M. Abdullah, S.-K. Son, Z. Jurek & R. Santra (2018). IUCrJ 5, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252518011442. 
Rayleigh-scattering microscopy for tracking and sizing nanoparticles in focused aerosol beams. M. F. Hantke, J. Bielecki, O. Kulyk, D. Westphal, D. S. D. Larsson, M. Svenda, H. K. N. Reddy, R. A. Kirian, J. Andreasson, J. Hajdu & F. R. N. C. Maia (2018). IUCrJ 5, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252518010837. 
Analysis of XFEL serial diffraction data from individual crystalline fibrils. D. H. Wojtas, K. Ayyer, M. Liang, E. Mossou, F. Romoli, C. Seuring, K. R. Beyerlein, R. J. Bean, A. J. Morgan, D. Oberthuer, H. Fleckenstein, M. Heymann, C. Gati, O. Yefanov, M. Barthelmess, E. Ornithopoulou, L. Galli, P. L. Xavier, W. L. Ling, M. Frank, C. H. Yoon, T. A. White, S. Bajt, A. Mitraki, S. Boutet, A. Aquila, A. Barty, V. T. Forsyth, H. N. Chapman & R. P. Millane (2017). IUCrJ 4, 795-811. 
Hit detection in serial femtosecond crystallography using X-ray spectroscopy of plasma emission. H. O. Jönsson, C. Caleman, J. Andreasson & N. Tîmneanu (2017). IUCrJ 4, 778-784. 
Merging single-shot XFEL diffraction data from inorganic nanoparticles: a new approach to size and orientation determination. X. Li, J. C. H. Spence, B. G. Hogue & H. Liu (2017). IUCrJ 4, 741-750. 
Characterization of temporal coherence of hard X-ray free-electron laser pulses with single-shot interferograms. T. Osaka, T. Hirano, Y. Morioka, Y. Sano, Y. Inubushi, T. Togashi, I. Inoue, K. Tono, A. Robert, K. Yamauchi, J. B. Hastings & M. Yabashi (2017). IUCrJ 4, 728-733. 
Start-to-end simulation of single-particle imaging using ultra-short pulses at the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser. C. Fortmann-Grote, A. Buzmakov, Z. Jurek, N.-T. D. Loh, L. Samoylova, R. Santra, E. A. Schneidmiller, T. Tschentscher, S. Yakubov, C. H. Yoon, M. V. Yurkov, B. Ziaja-Motyka & A. P. Mancuso (2017). IUCrJ 4, 560-568. 
Protein microcrystallography using synchrotron radiation. M. Yamamoto, K. Hirata, K. Yamashita, K. Hasegawa, G. Ueno, H. Ago & T. Kumasaka (2017). IUCrJ 4, 529-539. 
Serial millisecond crystallography of membrane and soluble protein microcrystals using synchrotron radiation. J. M. Martin-Garcia, C. E. Conrad, G. Nelson, N. Stander, N. A. Zatsepin, J. Zook, L. Zhu, J. Geiger, E. Chun, D. Kissick, M. C. Hilgart, C. Ogata, A. Ishchenko, N. Nagaratnam, S. Roy-Chowdhury, J. Coe, G. Subramanian, A. Schaffer, D. James, G. Ketwala, N. Venugopalan, S. Xu, S. Corcoran, D. Ferguson, U. Weierstall, J. C. H. Spence, V. Cherezov, P. Fromme, R. F. Fischetti & W. Liu (2017). IUCrJ 4, 439-454. 
Viscous hydrophilic injection matrices for serial crystallography. G. Kovácsová, M. L. Grünbein, M. Kloos, T. R. M. Barends, R. Schlesinger, J. Heberle, W. Kabsch, R. L. Shoeman, R. B. Doak & I. Schlichting (2017). IUCrJ 4, 400-410. 
XFELs for structure and dynamics in biology. J. C. H. Spence (2017). IUCrJ 4, 322-339. 
Small crystals, fast dynamics and noisy data are indeed beautiful. K. Moffat (2017). IUCrJ 4, 303-305. 
Experimental strategies for imaging bioparticles with femtosecond hard X-ray pulses. B. J. Daurer, K. Okamoto, J. Bielecki, F. R. N. C. Maia, K. Mühlig, M. M. Seibert, M. F. Hantke, C. Nettelblad, W. H. Benner, M. Svenda, N. Tîmneanu, T. Ekeberg, N. D. Loh, A. Pietrini, A. Zani, A. D. Rath, D. Westphal, R. A. Kirian, S. Awel, M. O. Wiedorn, G. van der Schot, G. H. Carlsson, D. Hasse, J. A. Sellberg, A. Barty, J. Andreasson, S. Boutet, G. Williams, J. Koglin, I. Andersson, J. Hajdu & D. S. D. Larsson (2017). IUCrJ 4, 251-262. 
Incommensurate atomic density waves in the high-pressure IVb phase of barium. A. Arakcheeva, M. Bykov, E. Bykova, L. Dubrovinsky, P. Pattison, V. Dmitriev & G. Chapuis (2017). IUCrJ 4, 152-157. 
Collaborative interactions to enhance gas binding energy in porous metal-organic frameworks. R.-B. Lin & B. Chen (2017). IUCrJ 4, 106-107. 
Breakthrough in the high-pressure structures of Ba based on full exploitation of aperiodic symmetry. E. V. Boldyreva (2017). IUCrJ 4, 104-105. 
Serial crystallography at synchrotrons and X-ray lasers. J. Standfuss & J. Spence (2017). IUCrJ 4, 100-101. 
Orientational order of liquids and glasses via fluctuation diffraction. A. V. Martin (2017). IUCrJ 4, 24-36. 
Angular correlations of photons from solution diffraction at a free-electron laser encode molecular structure. D. Mendez, H. Watkins, S. Qiao, K. S. Raines, T. J. Lane, G. Schenk, G. Nelson, G. Subramanian, K. Tono, Y. Joti, M. Yabashi, D. Ratner & S. Doniach (2016). IUCrJ 3, 420-429. 
Protein structure determination by single-wavelength anomalous diffraction phasing of X-ray free-electron laser data. K. Nass, A. Meinhart, T. R. M. Barends, L. Foucar, A. Gorel, A. Aquila, S. Botha, R. B. Doak, J. Koglin, M. Liang, R. L. Shoeman, G. Williams, S. Boutet & I. Schlichting (2016). IUCrJ 3, 180-191. 
Whole-pattern fitting technique in serial femtosecond nanocrystallography. R. A. Dilanian, S. R. Williams, A. V. Martin, V. A. Streltsov & H. M. Quiney (2016). IUCrJ 3, 127-138. 
Single-molecule imaging with longer X-ray laser pulses. A. V. Martin, J. K. Corso, C. Caleman, N. Timneanu & H. M. Quiney (2015). IUCrJ 2, 661-674. 
Towards phasing using high X-ray intensity. L. Galli, S.-K. Son, T. R. M. Barends, T. A. White, A. Barty, S. Botha, S. Boutet, C. Caleman, R. B. Doak, M. H. Nanao, K. Nass, R. L. Shoeman, N. Timneanu, R. Santra, I. Schlichting & H. N. Chapman (2015). IUCrJ 2, 627-634. 
Characterizing transverse coherence of an ultra-intense focused X-ray free-electron laser by an extended Young's experiment. I. Inoue, K. Tono, Y. Joti, T. Kameshima, K. Ogawa, Y. Shinohara, Y. Amemiya & M. Yabashi (2015). IUCrJ 2, 620-626. 
Three-dimensional coherent X-ray diffractive imaging of whole frozen-hydrated cells. J. A. Rodriguez, R. Xu, C.-C. Chen, Z. Huang, H. Jiang, A. L. Chen, K. S. Raines, A. Pryor Jr, D. Nam, L. Wiegart, C. Song, A. Madsen, Y. Chushkin, F. Zontone, P. J. Bradley & J. Miao (2015). IUCrJ 2, 575-583. 
Coherent three-dimensional X-ray cryo-imaging. I. Robinson (2015). IUCrJ 2, 477-478. 
A novel inert crystal delivery medium for serial femtosecond crystallography. C. E. Conrad, S. Basu, D. James, D. Wang, A. Schaffer, S. Roy-Chowdhury, N. A. Zatsepin, A. Aquila, J. Coe, C. Gati, M. S. Hunter, J. E. Koglin, C. Kupitz, G. Nelson, G. Subramanian, T. A. White, Y. Zhao, J. Zook, S. Boutet, V. Cherezov, J. C. H. Spence, R. Fromme, U. Weierstall & P. Fromme (2015). IUCrJ 2, 421-430. 
X-ray imaging detectors for synchrotron and XFEL sources. T. Hatsui & H. Graafsma (2015). IUCrJ 2, 371-383. 
SFX analysis of non-biological polycrystalline samples. T. Zhang, S. Jin, Y. Gu, Y. He, M. Li, Y. Li & H. Fan (2015). IUCrJ 2, 322-326. 
Operational properties of fluctuation X-ray scattering data. E. Malmerberg, C. A. Kerfeld & P. H. Zwart (2015). IUCrJ 2, 309-316. 
Powder to become crystal clear. Q. Hao (2015). IUCrJ 2, 307-308. 
X-ray lasers and serial crystallography. J. C. H. Spence (2015). IUCrJ 2, 305-306. 
Serial femtosecond crystallography: the first five years. I. Schlichting (2015). IUCrJ 2, 246-255. 
Superspace crystallography: a key to the chemistry and properties. C. B. Pinheiro & A. M. Abakumov (2015). IUCrJ 2, 137-154. 
Precession electron diffraction - a topical review. P. A. Midgley & A. S. Eggeman (2015). IUCrJ 2, 126-136. 
Perspectives on Li and transition metal fluoride phosphates as cathode materials for a new generation of Li-ion batteries. E. V. Antipov, N. R. Khasanova & S. S. Fedotov (2015). IUCrJ 2, 85-94. 
A modulation wave approach to the order hidden in disorder. R. Withers (2015). IUCrJ 2, 74-84. 
Determination of crystallographic intensities from sparse data. K. Ayyer, H. T. Philipp, M. W. Tate, J. L. Wierman, V. Elser & S. M. Gruner (2015). IUCrJ 2, 29-34. 
Solving difficult structures with electron diffraction. J. M. Zuo & J. L. Rouviére (2015). IUCrJ 2, 7-8. 
Serial crystallography for the masses?. J. P. Wright (2015). IUCrJ 2, 3-4. 
Time dependence of X-ray polarizability of a crystal induced by an intense femtosecond X-ray pulse. A. Leonov, D. Ksenzov, A. Benediktovitch, I. Feranchuk & U. Pietsch (2014). IUCrJ 1, 402-417. 
The indexing ambiguity in serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) resolved using an expectation maximization algorithm. H. Liu & J. C. H. Spence (2014). IUCrJ 1, 393-401. 
Room-temperature macromolecular serial crystallography using synchrotron radiation. F. Stellato, D. Oberthür, M. Liang, R. Bean, C. Gati, O. Yefanov, A. Barty, A. Burkhardt, P. Fischer, L. Galli, R. A. Kirian, J. Meyer, S. Panneerselvam, C. H. Yoon, F. Chervinskii, E. Speller, T. A. White, C. Betzel, A. Meents & H. N. Chapman (2014). IUCrJ 1, 204-212. 
First spin-resolved electron distributions in crystals from combined polarized neutron and X-ray diffraction experiments. M. Deutsch, B. Gillon, N. Claiser, J.-M. Gillet, C. Lecomte & M. Souhassou (2014). IUCrJ 1, 194-199. 
X-ray lasers and crystallography. J. C. H. Spence (2014). IUCrJ 1, 151-152. 
Ab-initio phasing using nanocrystal shape transforms with incomplete unit cells. H. Liu, N. A. Zatsepin & J. C. H. Spence (2014). IUCrJ 1, 19-27. 
Phasing tiny crystals. J. Miao & J. A. Rodriguez (2014). IUCrJ 1, 3-4. 

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