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BCA Physical Crystallography Group 1997

The symposium on "Time dependent structures and snap-shot techniques", featured presentations on transient species in the enzyme mechanism of hydroxy-methlbilane synthase (Y. Pernz), time-dependent studies of powders, liquids and amorphous materials (M. Roberts), and in situ studies of chemical reactions of catalysts and zeolites (R. Jones), the cation ordering in olivines (S. Redfern) and crystallization of nanocrystalline zirconia (M. Tucker). The best PCG poster prize was awarded to Zhengwei Hu (U. of Warwick), for his fascinating work on phase contrast imaging of the periodically domain-inverted nonlinear optic crystal LiNbO3 which allows comparison with inelastic neutron scattering data. The best neutron related poster went to Halima Amer (U. of Durham), for her ab initio calculations on proton transfer in the amides.

Vicky Nield and Chick Wilson