Dear ,

These are exciting times at DECTRIS, as we are busy preparing for Microscopy & Microanalysis 2019 in Portland (Oregon, USA), where we will have great news for the EM community.

We have been using our QUADRO detector on our own TEM to generate some really interesting data, both in diffraction as well as imaging mode (see EM topic 2).

In December last year, we published a paper on MicroED in Angewandte Chemie. This work was done with our collaborator Dr. Tim Grüne (formerly at PSI, now Uni Vienna) and various industrial partners, including Crystallise! AG, and clearly demonstrated that single 3D organic nanocrystals can be exploited to collect several datasets using a continuous rotation of the EM goniometer (Grüne et al., 2018).

Following up on the interest sparked by the Angew. Chemie paper, we hosted a webinar on MicroED by Tim Grüne on January 22nd and received many interesting questions among the 85 attendees. We compiled a Q&A document which will be distributed to all participants who registered for the webinar (see MicroED news below).

Encouraged by the successful combination of a TEM and our EIGER detector, we provide guidelines for the design of a dedicated new instrument, the electron diffractometer, which can complement any in-house X-ray source for the pharma and chemical industries (Heidler et al., 2019). The paper is in press and will soon be available on-line and open-access in Acta Cryst. D.

If you will attend the 4th Instruct Meeting on Structural Biology near Madrid next month, stop by our stand to learn more about MicroED and DECTRIS QUADRO.

Dr. Sacha De Carlo, Business Development Manager EM