menuilluminating the structure of matter
Crystal structure analysis began in 1912 with the first papers of William Lawrence Bragg. Just three years later in 1915, William Lawrence Bragg and his father, William Henry Bragg, were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in formulating the relationship between the atomic structure of a crystal and its X-ray diffraction pattern. Their work has revolutionised our understanding of the structure of matter ranging from minerals, pharmaceutical materials and catalysts to DNA, proteins and viruses.
In celebration of 100 years since the award of the Nobel Prize to the Braggs, IUCr Journals are making a number of articles free of charge for a period of time (see below). We strive for high quality and we encourage physicists, chemists and biologists and to report the best of their structural studies in our journals.
To find out more about our journals visit us at IUCr Journals Online.
100 papers for 100 years
In 2014, as part of the celebrations for the International Year of Crystallography, the IUCr launched IUCrJ. This is a fully open-access journal that aims to attract high-quality science papers of broad scientific significance from across all the scientific communities that use results obtained from diffraction methods. The goal for 2015 is to publish 100 articles (in line with the 100-year celebration of the Braggs) in IUCrJ.
The first 100 articles submitted to IUCrJ using the voucher code below, and accepted for publication following peer review, will be published as platinum open access (i.e. there will be no charges for open-access publication).
Voucher code: dis-63gwUYye619PkvwixPj
Articles from IUCr Journals
A selection of recent research articles in IUCr journals that are currently free to download are presented below.
A comprehensive classification and nomenclature of carboxyl-carboxyl(ate) supramolecular motifs and related catemers: implications for biomolecular systems
D'Ascenzo, L. & Auffinger, P. (2015).
The ecstasy and the agony; compression studies of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
Connor, L. E., Delori, A., Hutchison, I. B., Nic Daeid, N., Sutcliffe, O. B. & Oswald, I. D. H. (2015).
Inversion twinning in a second polymorph of the hydrochloride salt of the recreational drug ethylone
Cameron, T. S., Grossert, J. S., Maheux, C. R., Alarcon, I. Q., Copeland, C. R. & Linden, A. (2015).
Tetrahydroberberine, a pharmacologically active naturally occurring alkaloid
Pingali, S., Donahue, J. P. & Payton-Stewart, F. (2015).
Automating the application of smart materials for protein crystallization
Khurshid, S., Govada, L., EL-Sharif, H. F., Reddy, S. M. & Chayen, N. E. (2015).
Tools for macromolecular model building and refinement into electron cryo-microscopy reconstructions
Brown, A., Long, F., Nicholls, R. A., Toots, J., Emsley, P. & Murshudov, G. (2015).
Microseed matrix screening for optimization in protein crystallization: what have we learned?
D'Arcy, A., Bergfors, T., Cowan-Jacob, S. W. & Marsh, M. (2014).
Crystallization screening: the influence of history on current practice
Luft, J. R., Newman, J. & Snell, E. H. (2014).
Three-dimensional structures in the design of therapeutics targeting parasitic protozoa: reflections on the past, present and future
Hol, W.G.J. (2015).
Lipidic cubic phase serial millisecond crystallography using synchrotron radiation
Nogly, P., James, D., Wang, D., White, T. A., Zatsepin, N., Shilova, A., Nelson, G., Liu, H., Johansson, L., Heymann, M., Jaeger, K., Metz, M., Wickstrand, C., Wu, W., Båth, P., Berntsen, P., Oberthuer, D., Panneels, V., Cherezov, V., Chapman, H., Schertler, G., Neutze, R., Spence, J., Moraes, I., Burghammer, M., Standfuss, J. & Weierstall, U. (2015).
Advanced ensemble modelling of flexible macromolecules using X-ray solution scattering
Tria, G., Mertens, H. D. T., Kachala, M. & Svergun, D. I. (2015).
The first X-ray diffraction measurements on Mars
Bish, D., Blake, D., Vaniman, D., Sarrazin, P., Bristow, T., Achilles, C., Dera, P., Chipera, S., Crisp, J., Downs, R. T., Farmer, J., Gailhanou, M., Ming, D., Morookian, J. M., Morris, R., Morrison, S., Rampe, E., Treiman, A. & Yen, A. (2014).
