Chirality and accurate structure models by exploiting dynamical effects in continuous-rotation 3D ED data

23 November 2021, Version 1
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Abstract

Dynamical diffraction effects are usually considered a nuisance for structure analysis from continuous-rotation 3D electron diffraction (3D ED) data like cRED and MicroED. Here we demonstrate that by accounting for these effects during the structure refinement, significantly improved models can be obtained in terms of accuracy and reliability with up to four-fold reduction of the noise level in difference Fourier maps in comparison to the standard structure determination routines that ignore dynamical diffraction. As dynamical diffraction effects break the inversion symmetry of the diffraction, they allow a quick, easy, and reliable determination of the absolute structure of chiral crystals.

Keywords

electron diffraction
3D ED
MicroED
dynamical diffraction
dynamical refinement
absolute structure
nanocrystals

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