X-RAY SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING WITH SUBSTANCES OF BIOLOGICAL INTEREST IN DILUTED SOLUTIONS
X-RAY SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING WITH SUBSTANCES OF BIOLOGICAL INTEREST IN DILUTED SOLUTIONS
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DOI:
10.1016/s0079-6107(63)80015-2
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发表时间:
1963-01-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
KRATKY, O
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作者:
KRATKY, O
X-nAY small angle scattering is the plmnomenon of an X-ray beam passing through a material object being partly diffracted at small angles. It is caused by inhomogeneitics of tlm electron density occurring in the object at colloidal orders of magnitude. On the basis of a very advanced theory it is possible to derive from measurements of the small angle scattering valuable information concerning size, shape, arrangement and mass of those colloidal regions differing from their enviroiamcnt in the average electron density. This is a field of research whose importance for the study of macromolecules and other colloidal particles in biological objects is rapidly increasing. The coherent diffraction of X-rays in general is based, as is well known, on the fact that the incident wave excites a vibration in the electrons of the irradiated object, whereupon those emit secondary waves. Tlm 9 study of tlm interference of these secondary wavcs is the essential purpose of the X-ray fine structure analysis. Since for all diffraction phenomena the size of the diffracting object and the diffraction anglo are inversely rclatcd, colloidal particles and macromolecules produce u scattering effect at the appropriate small angles, that is a" small angle scattering".The phenomenon of the X-ray snmll angle scattering was obscrvcd and described with fibres and colloidal powders in various laboratories in the thirties (Krishnamurti, 1930; Hendricks, 1932; 5lark, 1932; tXVarren, 1934, 1936). Also, it was recognized rather early that the effect is caused by the colloidal structure of the objccts. A quantitative state of the matter, however, was only aclfieved by two theoretical interpretations.