This book explores SANS (small-angle scattering of neutrons) and SAXS (small-angle scattering if X-rays) and the ways they can be used to supplement X-ray crystallography.

What does this book cover?

Small Angle X-Ray and Neutron Scattering from Solutions of Biological Macromolecules looks in great detail at SANS and SAXS techniques for learning about macromolecules and other biological objects at several scales, especially in a hybrid system which also incorporates nuclear magnetic resonance imaging or X-ray crystallography.

Small Angle X-Ray and Neutron Scattering from Solutions of Biological Macromolecules looks at:

• SAXS/SANS measurements using ligands and binding partners
• Gaining new structural responses by changing the properties of the solvent
• Analysing macromolecular interactions by observing assembly and folding
• The use of the latest high brilliance neutron and X-ray sources
• Comparing and contrasting the strengths and weaknesses of the X-ray and neutron scanning methods

About the Authors 

Dr Dmitri I Svergun did his doctoral work at Moscow’s Institute of Crystallography and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has done research at GKSS Research Centre and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hamburg Outstation. Dr Michel Koch has been studying neutron scattering of macromolecules for nearly 50 years.

Small Angle X-Ray and Neutron Scattering from Solutions of Biological Macromolecules is an in-depth guide to the latest advances in a very fast-moving field.