New sources and instrumentation for neutrons in biology

S. C.M. Teixeira, G. Zaccai, J. Ankner, M. C. Bellissent-Funel, R. Bewley, M. P. Blakeley, P. Callow, L. Coates, R. Dahint, R. Dalgliesh, N. A. Dencher, V. T. Forsyth, G. Fragneto, B. Frick, R. Gilles, T. Gutberlet, M. Haertlein, T. Hauß, W. Häußler, W. T. HellerK. Herwig, O. Holderer, F. Juranyi, R. Kampmann, R. Knott, S. Krueger, P. Langan, R. E. Lechner, G. Lynn, C. Majkrzak, R. P. May, F. Meilleur, Y. Mo, K. Mortensen, D. A.A. Myles, F. Natali, C. Neylon, N. Niimura, J. Ollivier, A. Ostermann, J. Peters, J. Pieper, A. Rühm, D. Schwahn, K. Shibata, A. K. Soper, Th Strässle, J. Suzuki, I. Tanaka, M. Tehei, P. Timmins, N. Torikai, T. Unruh, V. Urban, R. Vavrin, K. Weiss

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Abstract

Neutron radiation offers significant advantages for the study of biological molecular structure and dynamics. A broad and significant effort towards instrumental and methodological development to facilitate biology experiments at neutron sources worldwide is reviewed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)133-151
Number of pages19
JournalChemical Physics
Volume345
Issue number2-3
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 18 2008

Funding

We are very grateful to the various neutron centres that provided us information on their facilities and new developments for this article. At the PCS we would like to thank in particular Benno P. Schoenborn, Xinmin Li, Marat Mustyakimov, Zoe Fisher and Andrii Kovalevskyi. At the PSI we are very grateful to Joachim Kohlbrecher and Kurt Clausen. At the ILL we are very grateful to Roland Gahler, Marie Plazanet, Hannu Mutka and Helmut Schober. SCMT acknowledges support as a joint appointee between ILL and Keele University, as well as support from the UK EPSRC.

FundersFunder number
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Keele University

    Keywords

    • Inelastic neutron scattering
    • Macromolecular structure and dynamics
    • Membranes
    • Neutron crystallography
    • Neutron scattering
    • Proteins
    • Quasi-elastic neutron scattering
    • Reflectometry
    • Small angle neutron scattering

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