Bruker AXS has announced that its SMART X2S automated chemical X-ray crystallography system has been awarded a R&D 100 award, recognising it as one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced in the past year. The SMART X2S for the first time allows inorganic and organic chemists to produce atomic resolution, 3D molecular structures in their own laboratories quickly and easily at the touch of a button. The SMART X2S takes small molecule structure determination to the next level of convenience by automating the previously difficult aspects of X-ray structure determination, from sample loading and alignment through data collection all the way to the mathematical structure solution, structure verification and report generation.