If You Can Get a Crystal Structure, Why Bother with Anything Else?

Since the first crystal structures were determined by the Braggs just over 100 years ago, crystallography has rapidly evolved in parallel with developments in photon, neutron, and electron sources to become the “go-to” technique for structure-function studies. It can provide atomic resolution structural information on an entire three-dimensional molecular or crystalline structure and is used from the study of bulk phase materials through to individual protein molecules [1, 2]. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]