The Royal Institution

Understanding Crystallography - Part 2: From Crystals to Diamond (2014x12)

Air date: Apr 10, 2014

How do X-rays help us uncover the molecular basis of life? In the second part of this mini-series, Professor Stephen Curry takes us on a journey into the Diamond Light Source, one of the UK's most expensive and sophisticated scientific facilities. Generating light brighter than the sun, and hosting a particle accelerator, Diamond is often used to determine the structure of complex molecules. By placing crystalline samples of prot