CrysAlisᴾʳᵒ Tip: Crystal Live View and 360° Crystal Movies

This Tip of the Month demonstrates how to use Crystal Live View and crystal movie features in CrysAlis^Pro to visually monitor your crystal before, during and after data collection.

Learn how to open a live crystal video window without interrupting your measurement, record a 360° movie before data collection, adjust the image step size for a more detailed view of crystal orientation and faces, and realign a crystal before continuing an experiment.

The video also shows how to manually record a crystal movie after data collection, adjust camera settings, view recorded movies in CrysAlis^Pro, and organize before- and after-experiment movies for easy comparison.

These tools make it easier to document crystal condition and identify visual changes such as movement, changes in color or other differences that may occur during an experiment.

Presenter

Khai-Nghi Truong, PhD | Application Scientist - Single Crystal XRD/ED

Rigaku Europe SE | Germany

Dr. Khai-Nghi Truong obtained his PhD in inorganic chemistry and small molecule crystallography at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) in late 2018, working under Prof. Ulli Englert on the synthesis and characterization of metal-organic frameworks. From 2019 to 2022, Khai worked as a postdoctoral research fellow with the renowned Prof. Kari Rissanen at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). He was part of the EU funded Horizon2020 FET Open research and innovation programme INITIO working as an expert in solid-state. His areas of expertise are inorganic and organic small molecule crystallography, supramolecular chemistry as well as materials science. As service crystallographer, chair of the Young Crystallographers of the German Society of Crystallographic (DGK-YC) and German representative of the Young Crystallographers’ European Crystallographic Association (YC-ECA) for several years, Khai has build-up a strong network of collaborators all around the world. He has contributed to more than 60 publications using different diffraction methods, viz. X-ray powder diffraction, single crystal X-ray and neutron diffraction. Khai joined Rigaku Europe SE in mid 2022, working as Application Scientist for both single crystal X-ray and electron diffraction supporting Rigaku’s clients in the EMEA region. Want to learn more? Connect with Khai-Nghi Truong, PhD LinkedIn .