The OSU X-ray Crystallography Facility is a cost effective resource, which provides fast, accurate, and confidential results at a reasonable rate.
What Facility Services are Available?
Small Molecule Structure Analysis Services:
Crystallization
- Consultation in the best approaches to generating good diffracting crystals suitable for data collection
- Recrystallization of bulk material for data collection
- Polymorph/solvate screening
- Crystal optimization
Data Collection, Processing and Analysis
- Harvesting, cryoprotecting, and mounting of air-, water-, temperature-, light-sensitive, or solvent-containing crystals
- Data collection from 90 K – 500 K
- Data analysis
Structure Determination and Display
- Generation of electron density map
- Determination of Absolute Stereochemistry for light atom organic molecules
- Model building Structure refinement
Data Presentation
- Provide graphical presentations of data collected
Protein and PXRD Data Collection Services:
Data Collection, Processing and Analysis
How to Submit a Sample:
- Please contact us first so that we can discuss the services needed.
- For internal users, complete the online submission form.
- For external users, download the submission form and fill it out.
OSU Academic Rates:
Single Crystal
- Full Structure with Report: $250/sample
- Student Data Collection: $100/sample
- Finish Structure and Report for Student Data Collection: $150/sample
- Successful Recrystallization: $250/sample
- Laue Diffractometer Use: $8/hr
Powder X-ray
- Powder X-ray Diffraction: $15/hr
Mossbauer
- Mossbauer Usage: $35/day
External users should contact us.