An Electrospinning Sample Delivery Device for Synchrotron-Based Biomacromolecule Serial Crystallography Research
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Experimental Platform Design
2.2. Off-Beamline Test
2.3. Installation of the Experiment Platform
2.4. Data Collection Strategy
2.5. Crystallization of Lysozyme
2.6. Data Collection and Data Processing
3. Results
4. Conclusions and Future Work
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Yu, L.; Wang, Z.; Xu, Q.; Sun, B.; Xiao, Q.; Wang, W.; Wang, Y.; Wang, Q.; He, J. An Electrospinning Sample Delivery Device for Synchrotron-Based Biomacromolecule Serial Crystallography Research. Quantum Beam Sci. 2025, 9, 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/qubs9020017
Yu L, Wang Z, Xu Q, Sun B, Xiao Q, Wang W, Wang Y, Wang Q, He J. An Electrospinning Sample Delivery Device for Synchrotron-Based Biomacromolecule Serial Crystallography Research. Quantum Beam Science. 2025; 9(2):17. https://doi.org/10.3390/qubs9020017
Chicago/Turabian StyleYu, Li, Zhijun Wang, Qin Xu, Bo Sun, Qingjie Xiao, Weiwei Wang, Yuzhu Wang, Qisheng Wang, and Jianhua He. 2025. "An Electrospinning Sample Delivery Device for Synchrotron-Based Biomacromolecule Serial Crystallography Research" Quantum Beam Science 9, no. 2: 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/qubs9020017
APA StyleYu, L., Wang, Z., Xu, Q., Sun, B., Xiao, Q., Wang, W., Wang, Y., Wang, Q., & He, J. (2025). An Electrospinning Sample Delivery Device for Synchrotron-Based Biomacromolecule Serial Crystallography Research. Quantum Beam Science, 9(2), 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/qubs9020017