I think Dr. Loll has expressed my reasons for my original suggestion. When
there are skins, evaporation, etc., "crystal catching" can be a real pain, and
then you break your best crystal...
What if you could just go up to your intended crystal and vacuum it up, and
whisk it away to the dewar?
Jacob
----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Loll
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 8:35 AM
Subject: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner
Pretty cool, but the examples shown are all gigantic. Having just spent a
frustrating several hours chasing 5 um crystals, I'd give half my kingdom for a
simple way to catch THOSE little buggers (damn you, surface tension!).
Begin forwarded message:
From: Patrick Shaw Stewart <patr...@douglas.co.uk>
Date: March 27, 2009 8:41:53 AM EDT
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner
Reply-To: Patrick Shaw Stewart <patr...@douglas.co.uk>
Jacob
Have you seen the Crystal Catcher system, developed in Japan?
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008APExp...1c7002K
Some of us saw it at a recent IUCr meeting, but I don’t know anyone who has
tried it with their own proteins
Patrick
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