In situ study of nanotemplate-induced growth of lysozyme microcrystals by submicrometer GISAXS

The recently introduced in situ µGISAXS technique has been used at ESRF to study the nucleation and growth mechanisms of lysozyme microcrystals with and without the thin Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) lysozyme film surface. Intensity fluctuations in the µGISAXS pattern versus time for the LB-induced crystallization process appear to be associated with rapid seed formation and crystal growth, while in the induced crystallization by the classical hanging-drop method the continuous shift of intensity in the Yoneda region appears to be compatible with slow crystal growth and with the quantitative model.

MicroGISAXS of Langmuir–Blodgett protein films: effect of temperature on long-range order. Addendum

An extra acknowledgment is published for the paper by Pechkova et al. [(2009), J. Synchrotron Rad. 16, 330–335].