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cryostream
Feature article

40 years ago, a new device appeared that made low-temperature X-ray crystallography possible with ease. I am, of course, referring to the so-called “Cryostream”.

Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

After four Small Molecule Crystallography Schools organized by the Crystallography, Solid State and Materials Chemistry Laboratory at Facultad de Química (FQ), Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay (1994, 2014, 2016 and 2018), we decided

Chairs of the discussion meeting from left to right: Julia Contreras-García (Sorbonne University), Jean-Michel Gillet (CentraleSupélec), Simon Grabowsky (University of Bern)
Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

Quantum crystallography is a relatively new interdisciplinary field that combines quantum mechanics with crystallographic methods to determine and interpret the electronic structure of materials from diffraction data.

Students being taught
Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

Education is integral to scientific work, so the organization of scientific schools is crucial.

IUCr awardees
Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

The 4th High-Pressure Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Summer School was held at the James Clerk Maxwell Building of the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland), from July 6th to July 10th 2026 (

Feature article

In our previous essay on cubic packings of spheres (Dauter & Jaskolski, 2026), we introduced the loosest Heesch-Laves (HL, 1933) packing and analyzed its symmetry.

Kraków at night
Commission news

27th June – 2nd July 2027, AGH University of Kraków, Poland