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Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in Crystalline Amino Acids. Raman Spectroscopy and X-Ray Diffraction

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In this lecture I give a general overview of the behavior of amino acid crystals under high pressure conditions. This chapter presents a summary of the main results published in the literature obtained using Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction.

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Freire, P.T.C. (2010). Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in Crystalline Amino Acids. Raman Spectroscopy and X-Ray Diffraction. In: Boldyreva, E., Dera, P. (eds) High-Pressure Crystallography. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9258-8_46

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