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• Article | 08 November 2023

  Observing the primary steps of ion solvation in helium droplets

  The initial steps of the ion solvation process are observed for the solvation of a single sodium ion in liquid helium, opening possibilities for benchmarking theoretical descriptions of ion solvation.

  • Simon H. Albrechtsen
  • , Constant A. Schouder
  •  & Henrik Stapelfeldt

• Letter | 07 April 2010

  Super-resolution biomolecular crystallography with low-resolution data

  X-ray crystallography has become the most common way for structural biologists to obtain the three-dimensional structures of proteins and protein complexes. However, crystals of large macromolecular complexes often diffract only weakly (yielding a resolution worse than 4 Å), so new methods that work at such low resolution are needed. Here a new method is described by which to obtain higher-quality electron density maps and more accurate molecular models of weakly diffracting crystals.

  • Gunnar F. Schröder
  • , Michael Levitt
  •  & Axel T. Brunger