X-ray crystallography is a very powerful technique that provides the three-dimensional structure of a crystalline molecule or material. It is an important technique that can give a high-resolution three-dimensional structure including bond distances, angles, stereochemistry, and absolute configuration. The main disadvantages of this technique are that it requires a good single crystal sample and that the solid-state structure may not accurately represent the solution structure.
Listed below are the reference for the X-ray crystal structure for ferritin and a general reference for X-ray crystallography.