Max F. Hantke

TL;DR: This work shows that high-quality diffraction data can be obtained with a single X-ray pulse from a non-crystalline biological sample, a single mimivirus particle, which was injected into the pulsed beam of a hard-X-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source.

TL;DR: The emerging technique of serial X-ray diffraction requires new software tools for the efficient analysis of large volumes of data and event selection early in the analysis pipeline is highly advantageous.

TL;DR: A proof-of-concept three-dimensional reconstruction of the giant mimivirus particle from experimentally measured diffraction patterns from an x-ray free-electron laser is presented with a modified version of the expand, maximize and compress algorithm.

TL;DR: In this article, an in situ method for imaging individual sub-micrometre-sized particles to nanometre resolution in flight using intense X-ray pulses from the Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron laser is presented.

TL;DR: It is shown that a beam of aerosolised cyanobacteria can be introduced into the focus of the Linac Coherent Light Source and record diffraction patterns from individual living cells at very low noise levels and at high hit ratios, and it is demonstrated that it is possible torecord diffraction data to nanometer resolution on live cells with X-ray lasers.