Time-resolved Diffraction

The acceleration of the technical capabilities of X-ray, electron and neutron diffraction techniques in recent years has been driven by developments in synchrotron and neutron sources, detectors and computers. These allow the rapid and repeated acquisition of diffraction data as a chemical and biological structural process proceeds, following its initiation. This opens up completely new studies from timescales ranging from the sub-picosecond, at the fastest, through all the time domains up to kiloseconds, for the slower molecular processes.