Welcome to the X-ray Service

The X-ray Diffraction Facility (XDF) at Queen Mary is equipped with modern diffraction equipment for single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction.

The facility offers a full diffraction analysis service to college based and external users, both industrial and academic. The service includes full structure determination and analysis for single crystal and qualitative and quantitative analysis for powder diffraction. We support research in: Materials Science, Engineering, Structural Chemistry, Structural Biology and Solid State Science.

The facility is located in the Francis Bancroft Building at Queen Mary’s Mile End campus (Contact details).