â- Â General Session (Fundamentals & Growth Technologies)

G01Â Fundamentals of Nucleation and Crystal Growth
G02Â Surfaces and Interfaces
G03Â Nanomaterials and Low Dimensional Structures
G04Â Thin Films and Epitaxial Growth
G05Â Organic and Biological Crystallization
G06Â Bulk Crystal Growth
G07Â Crystalline Defects
G08Â Advanced Growth Technologies
G09Â In situ Observation and Characterization
G10Â External Fields, Microgravity
G11Â Industrial Crystallization

â- Â Topical Session (Materials & Applications)

T01Â III-V Semiconductors
T02Â Group IV Semiconductors
T03Â 2D Materials
T04Â II-VI and Oxide Materials
T05Â Materials for Spintronics
T06Â Materials for Optical Devices
T07Â Materials for Electron Devices
T08Â Materials for Organic Devices and Bio Applications
T09Â Nitride Semiconductors
T10Â Silicon Carbide
T11Â Late News Session

â- Â Joint Session - examples -

Growth Simulation and Practice
Nanostructure - Fundamentals and Applications

Scope of ISSCG-16

Researchers who are playing active roles in frontiers of wide-ranging fields of crystal growth will give lectures on a wide array of topics ranging from instructive topics to the latest topics. Students will therefore have an opportunity to systematically learn about crystal growth from its fundamentals to its applications. All of the lecturers and students will stay in the same lodging for six days. The friendly and at-home atmosphere will be a valuable opportunity for both lecturers and students.

The summer school is run in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy.

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COSPAR, the International Union of Crystallography and the International Astronomical Union are proud to announce the first International School/Workshop on Crystallography for Space Sciences.

The aim of the School/Workshop is to prepare a selected number of participants for the next generation of projects in search of a deeper knowledge and understanding of extraterrestrial minerals and rocks, either large solid bodies or interstellar dust particles, using in-situ and remote analytical techniques.

The workshop is intended to instruct about 30 PhD students, postdocs and young staff members in modern crystallographic techniques in the fields of diffraction, imaging, spectroscopy and remote sensing. They will also learn the formation of mineral growth patterns in the early Earth, our Moon, Mars and other planets and moons, meteorites and interstellar dust, as well as relevance of crystals with origin of life and detection of primitive life forms. During the workshop, the students will analyze and discuss data from the mission Discovery and Curiosity as well as the forthcoming Exomars mission. Portable difractometers and spectrophotometers designed for these missions will be used during field trips for remote analysis of volcanic rocks.

1. X-ray diffraction. Fundamentals and applications to space crystallography

2. Powder Diffraction: Sample preparation, data collection and analysis

3. Advanced X-ray diffraction techniques and portable diffractometers

4. Spectroscopic Methods. Fundamental and applications to space crystallography

5. Raman, Infrared and Mössbauer spectroscopy

6. Study cases: Meteorites, Lunar rocks, Interstellar dust, Mars mineralogy, etc

7. The use of portable infrared and Raman spectrophotometers

8. Minerals in space: Meteorites, Interstellar dust, Comets, Moon and Mars, etc...

9. Crystallization in space

10. Minerals and the origin of Life

3rd Edition of the School of Crystallisation and Crystallography for Latin America

The proposed themes involve:

• all material science
• control and description of industrial crystallisation processes
• nanotechnology
• polymorphism
• co-crystallisation of drugs and
• tools for structural determination of solids (including amorphous) from powder diffraction.

Module I on Crystallization: 7-11 December

Module II on Crystallography: 14-18 December

Confirmed speakers:

Dario Braga University of Bologna

Fabrizia Grepioni University of Bologna

Norberto Masciocchi University of Insubria

Antonella Guagliardi Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Istituto di Cristallografia

Simon J. L. Billinge Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and Physicist at Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory

Richard I. Cooper Head of Chemical Crystallography and Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Silvia L. Cuffini Institute of Science and Technology, UNIFESP

Helvécio Rocha Laboratório de Sistemas Farmacêuticos Avançados, LaSiFA

3rd Edition of the School of Crystallisation and Crystallography for Latin America

The proposed themes involve:

• all material science
• control and description of industrial crystallisation processes
• nanotechnology
• polymorphism
• co-crystallisation of drugs and
• tools for structural determination of solids (including amorphous) from powder diffraction.

Module I on Crystallization: 7-11 December

Module II on Crystallography: 14-18 December

Confirmed speakers:

Dario Braga University of Bologna

Fabrizia Grepioni University of Bologna

Norberto Masciocchi University of Insubria

Antonella Guagliardi Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Istituto di Cristallografia

Simon J. L. Billinge Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and Physicist at Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory

Richard I. Cooper Head of Chemical Crystallography and Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Silvia L. Cuffini Institute of Science and Technology, UNIFESP

Helvécio Rocha Laboratório de Sistemas Farmacêuticos Avançados, LaSiFA

Defect formation during crystal growth from melt and selected epitaxial processes

This lecture course gives an overview of the important defect types, their origins and interactions during the bulk crystal growth from the melt and selected epitaxial processes. The equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, kinetic and interaction principles are considered as driving forces of defect generation, incorporation and ensembling. Results of modeling and practical in situ control are presented. Strong emphasis is given to semiconductor crystal growth since it is from this class of materials that most has been first learned, the resulting knowledge then having been applied to other classes of material. The treatment starts with melt-structure considerations and zero-dimensional defect types, i.e. native and extrinsic point defects. Their generation and incorporation mechanisms are discussed. Micro- and macro-segregation phenomena - striations and the effect of constitutional supercooling - are added. Dislocations and their patterning are discussed next as a central course theme. The role of high-temperature dislocation dynamics for collective interactions, like cell structuring and bunching, is specified. Additionally, some features of epitaxial dislocation kinetics and engineering are illustrated. Next the grain boundary formation mechanisms, such as dynamic polygonization and interface instabilities, are discussed. The interplay between facets, inhomogeneous dopant incorporations and twinning is shown. Finally, second phase precipitation and inclusion trapping are discussed. The importance of in situ stoichiometry control is underlined. Generally, selected measures of defect engineering are given at the end of each chapter. Monday, 13.07.2015, 09:00 - 11:00 Overview, melt structure and point defect formation Monday, 13.07.2015, 14:00 - 16:00 Dislocation background and definitions Tuesday, 14.07.2015, 09:00 - 11:00 Dislocation dynamics Tuesday, 14.07.2015, 14:00 - 16:00 Grain boundaries, faceting and twinning Wednesday, 15.07.2015, 09:00 - 11:00 Second-phase particles
Prof. Peter Rudolph, Professor Dr. habil, Dr. Ing., was born at July 1st, 1945 in Gera (Germany). After high-school graduation 1964 in Berlin and subsequent study at the Technical University of Lviv (Ukraine) he received the Diploma of Electronic Technology in 1969. The PhD (Dr. Engineer) of Solid State Physics and Technology he obtained at the same university in 1972. From 1973 to 1993 he was employed at the Institute of Crystallography and Material Science of the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1978 he prepared μg-crystal growth experiments for the first German manned space flight. In 1979 he obtained the DSc (Dr. habil) of Crystallography at the Humboldt University. Here, in 1980 he became the head of the Laboratory of bulk Crystal Growth and in 1985 the university professor position. From 1991 to 1993 he was member of the expert group of the ESA on μg-melt growth experiments. From 1993 to 1994 and in 1998 he held guest professorships at the Institute for Material Research of the Tohoku University in Sendai (Japan). During these times he also co-laborated with numerous Japanese Companies. Then, from 1994 to 2011 he was employed at the Leibniz Institute of Crystal Growth (IKZ) in Berlin. After his retirement in 2011 he is still related active as crystal technology consultant (CTC) for research and industry. He published about 300 original papers, reviews, book contributions, and is co-author of 35 patents. Recently he edited the 2-nd volume of Elsevier´s Handbook of Crystal Growth. He held diverse guest lecture courses in more than 15 countries around the world. He acted also as lecturer of several International Schools on Crystal Growth of the IUCr and IOCG. Peter Rudolph has held various functions in the VfK (secretary), DGKK (president, head of working group), IUCr and IOCG (executive committee). In 2001 and 2008 his former teams won the Innovation Prize of Berlin-Brandenburg.

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SERC-School

SSN College of Engineering, Chennai will conduct the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi sponsored school for imparting training in basic and cutting edge areas in functional materials. For those interested in understanding crystal growth and thin film preparation of functional materials and feel its applications, the school will offer a rare opportunity to learn from eminent scientists in the field.

Tentative Topics:

A. Courses

(1) Crystallographic aspects of Materials and their functionalities
(2) Growth of single crystalline materials in different forms including thin films
  (a) Bulk growth Solution growth including Low Temparature and High Temperature Melt growth including Bridgman â€" Stockbarger, Cz, Float - Zone etc.,
    (b) Thin films - LPE, VPE, MOCVD, MBE, Sputtering, PLD etc.
(3) Introduction to Phase diagrams and phase transitions
    (i) Characterisation
    (ii) Structural (X-ray, synchrotron, surface etc.,)
    (iii) Optical (Linear and Nonlinear)
    (iv) Crystal Defects
(4) Growth Kinetics Theoretical and experimental aspects of crystal growth
(5) Nucleation and growth of thin films
(6) Applications

• Importance and challenge associated with selected functional materials
• Hetero structures of functional semiconductors
  
• Materials for white light emitting devices( including demonstration)
• Quantum wells and super lattices
  
• Magnetic and superconducting thin films
  
• Piezo, pyro and ferro electric based devices
• Thermoelectric based devices

B Laboratory

Hands on training of growing single crystals and realisation of devices
(1) Crystal Growth Training on Crystal Growth of single crystals by Solution growth, Melt grown crystals by Bridgeman method, Chokrolski method and Top Seeded solution growth method.
(2) Thin film Training on thin film preparation by PECVD, Sputtering etc.,
(3) Characterisation of the grown crystals
(4) Device fabrication of grown crystals

**This is a tentative program guide. Content may change slightly.

        Applications are invited from research scholars, post-doctoral fellows and young faculty with research interests in related areas, for participation in this school. Few final year students of M.Sc. and M.Tech. with strong motivation to pursue research in these areas will be selected.

        All the selected participants will be provided to and fro train fare and local hospitality. Interested persons should send the following to the school director through email or post,

(i) curriculum vitae including full postal and email address
(ii) brief write up of current research areas
(iii) list of publications, if any
iv) letter of recommendation from head of the department
(v) a short write up on how the candidate is expected to benefit from the school to enhance his research activities.

The lipid cubic phase (LCP) continues to grow in popularity as a medium in which to generate crystals of membrane proteins for X-ray crystallographic structure determination. The current LCP (in meso) protocol uses glass sandwich crystallization plates, which are challenging to harvest crystals from and are impractical for in situ X-ray diffraction measurements.Â
 This workshop is dedicated to the presentation of a novel in meso in situ serial crystallography (IMISX) method (Huang et al. 2015 Acta Cryst. D), which combines the many advantages of glass plates with high-throughput in situ serial data collection capabilities.  The workshop consists of introductory lectures, followed by hands-on practicals on methods for growing crystals of membrane proteins by the in meso or LCP method, for collecting serial diffraction data on micro-crystals directly in situ and for processing the data most efficiently for high-resolution structure determination.  There is no registration fee and all local expenses will be covered, but participants are requested to take care of their travel arrangements. The workshop is limited to 20 students. The application deadline is August 15.

Modeling, measuring and controlling crystal shape

The course will be divided into five different topics, held by experts in the field:

Molecular ModelingÂ
Prof. Michele Parrinello and Dr. Matteo SalvalaglioÂ
Università della Svizzera Italiana / ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Mechanistic Growth Models
Prof. Michael F. DohertyÂ
University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Population Balance Modeling Â
Prof. Marco MazzottiÂ
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Monitoring Particle Size and Shape Â
Dr. Thomas VetterÂ
University of Manchester, UK

Optimization and Control of Crystallization Processes Â
Prof. Zoltan K. NagyÂ
Purdue University / University of Loughborough, USA / UK

The Crystal Growth Section of the Italian Association of Crystallography (AIC) and the European Network of Crystal Growth (ENCG) are pleased to announce the First European School on Crystal Growth (ESCG) â€" Fundamentals of Crystal Growth â€" which will be held at the CNR Research Area in Bologna on 5-8 September 2015.

The aim of the ESCG School is to bring together PhD students and young researchers from all over Europe and the rest of the world in a warm and stimulating atmosphere to introduce them to the fundamental concepts and mechanisms governing crystal growth processes. Nowadays, many schools, tutorials and brief courses on specific aspects of the growth of advanced materials are being offered to the International Crystal Growth community; however, the importance of raising the new generation of crystal growers with an in-depth knowledge of the fundamental concepts at the basis of crystal growth science is never enough emphasized. To fill the gap, the ESCG School intends to address the fundamental aspects of the science and technology of crystal growth, with emphasis on the fundamental thermodynamics, fluid-dynamics, kinetics and atomistic mechanisms ruling crystal growth processes; these mechanisms will be presented along with principles of crystallization from the melt, liquid and vapour, for application to the synthesis of bulk, epitaxial, and nanosized crystals. The ambition of the School is to give the attendees a unitary view of the science and technology of crystal growth, despite the many and apparently diverse materials fields it nowadays applies. Selected senior experts in the field will give the lectures, answer your questions and are available for discussions.

ESCG is also the official AIC School 2015. It will take place in conjunction with the Fifth European Conference on Crystal Growth (ECCG5), which will be held also in Bologna in the days after the School. We cordially invite you to participate in this school and mark the dates in your agenda.

Epitaxy and Promises

Scope

Epitaxy allows nowadays the usual growth of nanostructures with unique properties. The control of their growth at the finest level is a challenge in achieving new systems. It involves both the understanding of the growth mechanisms together with the knowledge of the properties of materials at the nanoscale. It is a domain where both fundamental research and industrial issues are closely entangled.

This summer school is aimed at giving to Ph-D students, young but also senior scientists, an up-to-date overview on the epitaxy of semi-conductors. The basic growth mechanisms will be presented with an emphasis on the new developments in this understanding. The control of the growth using patterns, selective growth or new geometries such as nanomembranes, nanowires or sheets, will be reviewed. The properties of the epitaxial systems, already explored or expected, will be given both theoretically and experimentally with a description of the characterization techniques. The school will give the opportunity to review the most important achievements in practical applications of epitaxial nanostructures. A particular attention will be given to new trends and pioneering directions, as well as to new materials and devices.

The topics include growth, nanostructures, characterization, physical properties and devices.

Crystal Growth

equilibrium properties, kinetics and nucleation, self-organization, step growth droplet epitaxy.

Semiconductors epitaxy

elastic relaxation, quantum dots, 2D/3D transition and ATG instability, strain/composition coupling, pattern, selective growth, nanomembranes and nanowires, graphene

Properties and characterization

optical and electronic properties, structural and chemical characterization, magnetic properties, single object diffraction, tomography

Integration and applications

heterogeneous integration and optical applications, heterogeneous integration and electronic applications, use of epitaxial systems in fundamental systems, industrial issues, promises and limitations.

This summer school is dedicated to PhD students and young scientists. It will provide both a reminder of the basic understanding of epitaxy together with a description of its modern applications. It will explore the latest developments of the crystal growth at the finest levels, its potential together with its challenges. The opto-electronic and magnetic properties of nanostructures made by epitaxy will be described together with their characterization. Finally, the use of epitaxy both in new fundamental objects and in industrial applications will be explored.

• Global Optimisation applied to Structure Prediction of Nanoclusters and Polymorphism
• Nucleation and Crystal Growth from Solution
• Industrial and Crystallisation Processes
• Cocrystallization

With the increased demand for APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients) to reach the marketplace, chemists in early stage development are expected to have a greater understanding of solid form and crystallisation. This single day event, presented by a selection of industrialists and academics in their field of expertise, will provide an introduction to this area, specifically initial crystallisation experiments, solid form selection and formulation and how these matters are handled using real industrial examples.

Lectures

• Crystallisation: why, what, how and when? Dr Simon Black, AstraZeneca
• Title to be advised, Prof Alistair Florence, University of Strathclyde
• Understanding the crystal morphology of molecular crystals from a solid-state and interfacial chemistry perspective, Prof Kevin Roberts, University of Leeds
• Cocrystals; synthesis, properties and medicinal chemistry, Prof Kim James, Peakdale
• Caffeine and Paracetamol: small molecules for big headaches, Dr Kreso Bucar, UCL
• Polymorphism studies of a preclinical candidate in a CRO environment. Lessons learnt (again), Dr David Pearson, Charles River Laboratories

One place, six conferences covering hot science trends. The main focus will be on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology in the fields of Graphene, Bio/Medicine, Optics, Photonics, Chemistry, Toxicology. Internationally renowned speakers will offer the attendees exceptional opportunities. The latest trends and discoveries in N&N from some of the world´s leading players in the field will be discussed.

Graphene2015

• Other 2 dimensional materials (Transition metal dichalcogenides, phosphorene, silicene, BN, topological insulators,....)
• Growth, synthesis techniques and integration methods
• Spectroscopies (Optics, Raman, EELS) and microscopies (HRTEM, STM, AFM)
• Chemistry of Graphene
• Quantum transport
• Magnetism and Spintronics
• Nanoelectromechanical systems
• Applications (gas sensors, composites, nanoelectronic devices...)

NanoSpain2015

NanoSpain Conference has been organized over the past 11 years and is a reference meeting of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (N&N) in Spain. Over the past years, NanoSpain conference became more and more multidisciplinary and 2015 won’t be an exception. Nanospain 2015 will change its format and will be divided into 4 thematic conferences in order to deepen the current research in different themes. The conference NanoSpain 2015 will also serve as a link between industry and researchers.

PPM2015: Photonics, Plasmonics, Magneto-Optics

Light-matter interactions, the recent advances in fabrication techniques, and the trends to compactness makes photonics to work more and more on the nanoscale. This makes this a broad field where developments based on nanostructured dielectrics, semiconductors and metals leads to applications and devices in which electromagnetic field can be generated, manipulated and controlled in sub-wavelength structures. The materials employed cover a wide range: organic, metallic, ceramic, magnetic, and dielectric. The clever choice or combination from such a wide variety of materials enables the development of novel applications with on-demand optical properties. Applications that will lead to technological advances span from information technologies to energy harvesting and biosensing.
The conference aim is to bring together top researchers and future leaders encouraging interactions between students, young speakers, and senior figures in the field. The topics will cover the experimental and theoretical aspects of light interaction with nanoscale objects and nanostructured materials, focusing on dielectric materials tailored on the nanoscale, metalic materials exploiting their capability to sustain plasmon excitations, and magneto-optical materials that, on one side, allow external modification of the optical properties, and, on the other, are non-reciprocal permitting to envisage structures that are immune to backscattering.

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Fundamental Mechanisms of Ordering from the Atomic to the Mesoscale

The Crystal Growth and Assembly Gordon Research Conference (previously known as "Thin Film and Crystal Growth Mechanisms GRC") is dedicated to the knowledge and understanding of the fundamental atomic and nanoscale physics and chemistry that are central to the nucleation and growth of crystals for a wide array of technologies. This well-established conference draws researchers from around the world from the fields of physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, and beyond. Historically, the conference has emphasized concepts rather than specific materials, technologies or growth methods. Attendees are drawn together by a common interest in understanding the mechanisms of crystal nucleation and growth and applying this understanding to the development of new materials. This focus has attracted scientists with a broad range of specializations: from biomineralization to quantum dots, from advanced scanning probe microscopies to multiscale molecular modeling, and from the interactions of proteins with inorganic materials to the role of stress in pattern formation. This dynamic conference brings together researchers who find common inspiration in seeing how the general principles of crystal thermodynamics and growth kinetics are applicable to many fields.

• Assembly Mechanisms
  (Peter Vekilov / Keynote: Daan Frenkel / Zvonimir Dogic)
• Surfaces and Interfaces
  (Alexander Chernov / Ulrike Diebold / Joanna Millunchick / David Srolovitz)
• Nanoparticles
  (Tobias Hanrath / Hongyuan Chen / Yu Huang)
• In Situ Characterization of Growth
  (Haimei Zheng / Mingwei Chen / Gen Sazaki / Eli Sutter)
• Bio-Inspired Crystallization
  (Yael Politi / Boaz Pokroy / Jeffrey Rimer)
• Nanowires
  (Frances Ross / Ritesh Agarwal / Jerry Tersoff / Erik Bakkers)
• Crystals for Energy Production
  (Aram Amassian / Alberto Salleo / Richard Lunt)
• Molecular Assembly and Crystallization
  (Michael McBride / Bart Kahr / Michele Parrinello / Boris Rybtchinksi)
• Quasicrystals and Colloids
  (Sharon Glotzer / Clemens Bechinger / Ulrich Wiesner)

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Scope/topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Kinetics of Complex, Multiphase and Hybrid Processes
• Catalysts Synthesis and Characterization
• New Catalytic Processes
• Catalytic and Multiphase Reactors
• Polymerization Reactors
• Electro-, Photo- and Sono-Chemical Reactors
• Phase Equilibrium and Phase Transport
• Innovation and Separation Processes
• Membrane Processes
• Membrane Science
• Simulation and Separation Equipment Design
• Hybrid and Membrane Processes
• Structured Systems, Meso and Micro Reactors
• Non-conventional Energetic Technologies in Chemical Processes
• Synthesis and Design of Processes
• Simulation, Optimization, Planning and Control of Processes
• Energy Integration and Optimization
• Bioreactors and Bioprocesses (new applications and configurations)
• Modeling of bioprocesses
• Systems biotechnology
• Biorefinery
• Advanced bioseparation technologies
• Clean Energy from Fossil Resources
• Emission ControlEfficiency and New Energy Carriers
• Capture, Storage and Use of CO2
• Sustainable Processes and Products
• Green Solvents: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
• Green Polymers from Renewable Resources
• Green Organic Synthesis Routes
• New Biosynthetic Strategies
• High Pressure and Supercritical Processes
• Ionic Liquids: New Reaction/Separation Media
• Fine Chemistry
• Nano-structured Materials, Catalysts
• Intelligent Materials
• Intelligent Polymers
• Coatings and Surface Treatments
• Biodiversity conservation
• Bio-drug discovery
• Bioenergy
• Bioenvironmental Engineering
• Marine Biochemicals
• Environmental Engineering & Management
• Sustainable & Clean Technologies
• Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
• Chemical Engineering educational challenges and development
• Chemical Reaction Engineering
• Thermodynamics
• Multiphase flows
• Crystallization Distillation, absorption and extraction
• Rheology
• Product Engineering and Development
• Nanomanufacturing
• Energy and Nuclear Sciences
• Mathematical modelling in chemical engineering
• Macromolecular Science and Engineering
• Advanced Materials Processing
• Multiscale Modelling
• Biochemical Engineering
• Physical Chemistry
• Radiochemistry
• Biophysical Chemistry

Introduction

The crystallisation phase transformation process and the resulting creation of crystalline materials from liquid phase precursors are central to the science and process engineering of materials in their broadest sense. Crystallisation involves two distinct stages: nucleation and growth. Due to the nano-scale size domain within which the nucleation process functions it is a much less understood process compared to the growth process. As a result, elucidating the fundamental physics and chemistry that govern the formation and structure of the nucleation supra-molecular transition state remains one of the truly unresolved 'grand challenges' of the physical sciences.

Format

The Faraday Division have been organising high impact Faraday Discussions in rapidly developing areas of physical chemistry and its interfaces with other scientific disciplines for over 100 years.Â

Faraday Discussions have a special format where research papers written by the speakers are distributed to all participants before the meeting, and most of the meeting is devoted to discussing the papers. Everyone contributes to the discussion - including presenting their own relevant research. The research papers and a record of the discussion are published in the journal Faraday Discussions.Â

Themes

• Molecular self-assembly in nucleationÂ
  This session will focus on the transition pathway, and its associated molecular assembly process, for solute molecules as they aggregate and stabilise into clusters prior to their subsequent development in the growth stage into facetted crystals. The session will seek to examine the latest results from both experimental studies and advanced molecular and synthonic modelling.Â

• Nucleation kinetics and mechanismsÂ
  The session will focus on the mechanistic processes underpinning the nucleation process, i.e. whether single/2-step, progressive/instantaneous, homo/heterogeneous etc. and The role played by secondary nucleation processes in modifying nucleation behaviour will be examined and the session will also seek to examine the latest research in kinetic modelling of the nucleation process.Â

• Solvent interactions as determinants in the nucleation pathwayÂ
  This session will seek to examine the role played by crystallisation environment, notably solvent choice (whether polar/apolar, protic/aprotic and molecular size/shape) and resultant solution structure, in dictating the nucleation process. The role played by solution ideality as well as the influence hydrogen bonding and synthon architectures for directing specific solute-solute interactions will be examined.

• Nucleation in complex multi-component and multi-phase systemsÂ
  This session will examine nucleation within complex crystallisation environments for situation where the presence of multi-components and phases are found to significantly change crystallisation behaviour and crystallisability of a material, e.g. in an extreme case leading to oiling out. Understanding the influence of phase composition, molecular speciation and chirality on behaviour and how this effects the solid form properties of the resultant crystals produced (polymorphic form, crystal size and crystallinity) will be also examined.Â

Aims

This meeting aims to bring together this growing body of theoretical and experimental work from both the academic and industrial spheres in order to assess recent progress, highlight on-going challenges in the domain area and route-map future work still needed.

This conference marks the celebration of the International year of Crystallography-2014, announced by UNESCO, in order to honor the occasion of 100 years since the first X-ray diffraction experiment carried out by Max von Laue, William and Lawrence Bragg. The discoveries made by them a century ago revolutionized fields from mineralogy to biology, to study the three dimensional structure of molecules at atomic resolution.

The technique Braggs developed and used for their pioneering work on the structures of minerals, small compounds and alloys, is also applied extensively to determine the structures of biological macromolecules such as virus, proteins and nucleic acids.

Modern X-ray crystallography is now almost completely automated due to sophisticated high energy synchrotron sources, ultra-sensitive X-ray detectors and associated powerful algorithms for data analysis of hundreds of thousands of diffraction intensities. Till date, nearly two dozen Nobel prizes have been awarded for the discoveries involving X-ray crystallography.

This International Conference on Crystal Growth and Biomolecular Crystallography will be addressed by the several renowned crystallographers and advanced material scientists. The lectures will present a historical perspective with recent advances in crystal growth and X-ray crystallography and their application in modern science.