Figure 3
(a) Diffraction from a periodic, fibrous structure is limited to layer planes spaced at distances reciprocal to the axial repeat of the fiber. The equator is indexed as l = 0, the first layer line as l = 1 and so on. For a cross-β structure the axial repeat is ∼4.7 Å. When the fibrous structures are completely disoriented, the fiber pattern is spherically averaged in reciprocal space (b), giving rise to a diffraction pattern that is circularly symmetric (c). The disorientation spreads the two-dimensional layer planes (including the equator) onto three-dimensional surfaces. |