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The relative merits of a technique depend often on the specificity of the field where it is applied and on the available alternatives. In this perspective it is not surprising that in polymer crystallography electron diffraction has been comparatively more fruitful than for low-molecular weight compounds [1]. This stems from two sets of reasons:
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Meille, S.V. (1997). Electron Diffraction in Polymer Crystal Structure Analysis: Some Examples. In: Dorset, D.L., Hovmöller, S., Zou, X. (eds) Electron Crystallography. NATO ASI Series, vol 347. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8971-0_27
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