X-Ray Diffraction Facility

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The X-Ray Diffraction Facility at the Department of Chemistry of New York University is dedicated to materials identification and characterization through Single-Crystal and Powder X-Ray Diffraction (SCXRD and PXRD) analysis. Researchers may have analysis done by the facility specialist or perform the work by themselves after training (certain restrictions may apply to external users).

The facility is partially supported by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) program of the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers DMR-0820341 and DMR-1420073.

• Nature Communication paper: Hydrogen-bonded frameworks for molecular structure determination: a better way to determine the molecular structure of hard-to-crystallized compounds than the crystal sponge method.
  
• The 24th International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS XXIV) and 2019 NYU X-Ray Workshop
• Our work on a new aspirin polymorph was reported on a news release. 
• Congratulations to Dr. Jingxiang Yang, who won a poster prize on the Gordon Reseach Conference, Crystal Engineering.
• 2018 NYU X-Ray Workshop
• The structure of glycine dihydrate: a mystery of the unknown glycine form revealed. News: 1) Glycine can form hydrate with water in the solid state; 2) An earth-bound amino acid that may be common in outer space. 3) Glycine from space and in solution.
  
• Science paper: Polymeric peptide pigments with sequence-encoded properties
  
• Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. cover: Encapsulation of isolated luminophores within supramolecular cages
• A Johnson-type (J₁₇) {Ni₄₀} coordination cage
• ChemComm front cover: Oxidation of carbon monoxide in basic solution catalyzed by nickel cyano carbonyls under ambient conditions and the prototype of a CO-powered alkaline fuel cell.
• ChemComm inside front cover: [Co^I(CN)₂(CO)₃]⁻, a new discovery from an 80-year-old reaction.
  
• International Year of Crystallography: 2014
  
• Crystals and kidney stones
• Origami Chemistry: NYU chemist folds molecules