X-ray free-electron lasers provide novel opportunities to conduct single particle analysis on nanoscale particles. Coherent diffractive imaging experiments were performed at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), SLAC National Laboratory, exposing single inorganic core-shell nanoparticles to femtosecond hard-X-ray pulses. Each facetted nanoparticle consisted of a crystalline gold core and a differently shaped palladium shell. Scattered intensities were observed up to about 7 nm resolution. Analysis of the scattering patterns revealed the size distribution of the samples, which is consistent with that obtained from direct real-space imaging by electron microscopy. Scattering patterns resulting from single particles were selected and compiled into a dataset which can be valuable for algorithm developments in single particle scattering research.
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- Diffraction Data of Core-shell Nanoparticles from an X-ray Free Electron Laser
- Li, Xuanxuan (Author)
- Chiu, Chun-Ya (Author)
- Wang, Hsiang-Ju (Author)
- Kassemeyer, Stephan (Author)
- Botha, Sabine (Author)
- Shoeman, Robert L. (Author)
- Lawrence, Robert (Author)
- Kupitz, Christopher (Author)
- Kirian, Richard (Author)
- James, Daniel (Author)
- Wang, Dingjie (Author)
- Nelson, Garrett (Author)
- Messerschmidt, Marc (Author)
- Boutet, Sebastien (Author)
- Williams, Garth J. (Author)
- Hartman, Elisabeth (Author)
- Jafarpour, Aliakbar (Author)
- Foucar, Lutz M. (Author)
- Barty, Anton (Author)
- Chapman, Henry (Author)
- Liang, Mengning (Author)
- Menzel, Andreas (Author)
- Wang, Fenglin (Author)
- Basu, Shibom (Author)
- Fromme, Raimund (Author)
- Doak, R. Bruce (Author)
- Fromme, Petra (Author)
- Weierstall, Uwe (Author)
- Huang, Michael H. (Author)
- Spence, John (Author)
- Schlichting, Ilme (Author)
- Hogue, Brenda (Author)
- Liu, Haiguang (Author)
- ASU Biodesign Center Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy (Contributor)
- Biodesign Institute (Contributor)
- Applied Structural Discovery (Contributor)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
- School of Molecular Sciences (Contributor)
- Department of Physics (Contributor)
- School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
- Digital object identifier: 10.1038/sdata.2017.48
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value2052-4463
- The final version of this article, as published in Scientific Data, can be viewed online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201748
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Li, X., Chiu, C., Wang, H., Kassemeyer, S., Botha, S., Shoeman, R. L., . . . Liu, H. (2017). Diffraction data of core-shell nanoparticles from an X-ray free electron laser. Scientific Data, 4, 170048. doi:10.1038/sdata.2017.48