“If a dedicated electron diffractometer – where the electron optics, the sample stage, the detectors, the imaging system and the control software are completely designed and optimized for diffraction – were to be introduced on the market, it would be a breakthrough in the field, removing the problematic step of growing a large single crystal to determine the crystal structure”, says Professor Mauro Gemmi (IIT, Pisa), member of the scientific advisory board of ELDICO.