Drugs, Food, Agrichemicals, Minerals and New Materials

Topics of the School

• Solution properties
• Nucleation: classical and non-classical approaches
• Crystal growth kinetics and mechanisms
• Crystallization routes
• Crystallization techniques
• Crystal morphology
• Mineral textures
• Polymorphism
• Hydrates and solvates
• Crystallization screening
• Industrial (mass) crystallization
• Chirality
• Biomineralization
• Co-crystals

Key Topics

• Mining, mineral processing and metallurgy
• Geology and geochemistry
• Functional materials incorporating nanoparticles
• Energy
• Environment
• Biomaterials
• Manufacturing
• Thin films
• In addition to AXAA's traditional focus areas of XRF and XRD, analytical methodologies including neutron scattering, micro-XRF/XFM, tomography, total scattering/PDF, SAXS and XAS

The 2017 EMU (European Mineralogical Union) School

The school will cover different multidisciplinary aspects related to the study of natural fibres and is thus aimed at students with a background in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Material Science, Medicine, Physics who strive for working in the field of mineral fibre and asbestos and want to acquire both a strong background in this specific area of environmental protection and a multidisciplinary open vision of the asbestos related problems.

The following topics will be covered:

• Crystal structure and crystallography, occurrence of mineral fibres, and natural occurring asbestos
• experimental methods for the investigation of mineral fibres: optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, vibrational spectroscopy, iron spectroscopy and synchrotron radiation based techniques
• Surface and bio-chemical properties of mineral fibres
• Illustration of asbestos related diseases and bio-chemical mechanism inducing toxicity effects in the human body
• In vitro and in vivo tests to assess cyto/genotoxicity and carcinogenicity of mineral fibre
• Dissolution and biodurability of mineral fibres
• Epidemiological studies of asbestos related diseases
• Genetic factors, mutations and toxicity of mineral fibres

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From Slow to Fast Rock Deformation and Back

Interactions Between Organic and Inorganic Materials Across Time and Length Scales

Exploring Mechanisms Behind Biomineral Formation and Function

We are happy to announce VI-th National Crystallographic Symposium (NCS2016) that will be held on October 05-07, 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria.

As you may have already recognized this is will be the sixth "NCS" of the series started in 2009.

We have already started the preparation of the next issue of the conference (submitted manuscripts will be published in the journal “Bulgarian Chemical Communications”, a special issues due April 2017).NCS16 papers will also be online available in full text via the present platform.  You are warmly invited to come and join us!

NCS2016 is held under the auspices of BCS and is the major event on Crystallography, crystal growth, structure analyses and related techniques in Bulgaria. The Symposium aims at the applications of different crystallographic techniques in combination with other methods in the fields of materials sciences, mineralogy, biology, environmental engineering, computational methods etc. Bringing together researchers from different areas NCS16 will provide them with a high-qualified platform for them to share their latest studies and to assist further findings and collaboration.

With passionate participants from the world, NCS2016 Â would be perfect for you to present your research and find collaboration for your future work.

Conference venue

Topics

All fields of crystallography.

Presentations:

• Plenary lectures (45 + 15 min)
• Oral presentations (12 + 3 min)
• Posters

Invited plenary lecturers

Aleksandar Višnjevac
RuÄ'er BoÅ¡ković Institute
Physical Chemistry Division
Zagreb, Croatia

Bernhard Spingler
University of Zurich,
Department of Chemistry
Zurich, Switzerland

Edward Tiekink
The University of Malaya,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Horst Borrmann
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe
Dresden, Germany

Miha Pavšič
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Pascal Roussel
Université de Lille
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille
Lille, France

Conference Materials

At the beginning of the Conference every participant will receive the Book of abstracts in Serbian and English.

Language

The official language of the Conference is English.

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The School will address all aspects of crystallographic analysis of structural phase transitions, including basics of thermodynamics, kinetics and atomistic mechanisms ruling the processes. These concepts will be presented along with phenomenological theories for the treatment of phase transitions, with emphasis on the application of general theory to experimental data.Â

Phase transformations occur in most types of materials, including minerals, diverse organic, inorganic and hybrid compounds, pharmaceuticals, foods, ceramics and even crystalline viruses, and have been studied in almost all branches of science. Perovskites will be the teaching tool of AICS2016, with examples spanning from mineralogical to hybrid organic-inorganic samples. Therefore, the School is mainly directed to students working in the fields of chemistry, Earth sciences, mineral physics and materials science, and is as well of interest for metal-organic chemists and molecular crystallographers.

Ambition of the School is to give the attendees a unitary view, despite the many and apparently diverse materials such phenomena occur in, and the sometimes different terminologies used in the different fields.

Confirmed speakers Mois I. Aroyo (Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain), Tiziana Boffa Ballaran (Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany), Michael A. Carpenter (University of Cambridge, UK), Angelo Gavezzotti (University of Milan, Italy), A. Mike Glazer (University of Oxford, UK), Lucia Maini (University of Bologna, Italy), Marcus Müller (Dectris Ltd., Switzerland), Massimo Nespolo (University of Lorraine, Nancy, France), Emanuela Schingaro (University of Bari, Italy), Serena C. Tarantino (University of Pavia, Italy), Ian D. Williams (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Deadlines:

Bursary request: 15 May 2016
Registration and payment: 12 June 2016Â

Plenary lectures

G. R. Desiraju: From molecule to crystal

Ron Lifshitz: What is a crystal? - New answers to an old question

Keynote lectures

Alessia Bacchi: Crystal engineering and structural chemistry: function through design_1

Robert Mokaya: Inorganic Materials and Industry Minerals

Alejsandro Buschiatto:

Colin Groom: Crystallography data bases

Gilberto Artioli: Inorganic Materials and Mining Industry

Ashwini Nangia: Crystal engineering and structural chemistry: function through design_2

Topics of the School

• Solution properties
• Nucleation: classical and non-classical approaches
• Crystal growth kinetics and mechanisms
• Crystallization routes
• Crystallization techniques
• Crystal morphology
• Mineral textures
• Polymorphism
• Hydrates and solvates
• Crystallization screening
• Industrial (mass) crystallization
• Chirality
• Biomineralization
• Co-crystals
• Diamonds growth

Preliminary List of Topics

The latest advances in methodology and applications of charge densities:

• advances in data analysis
• understanding dynamics of atoms and structures
• progress in using large scale facilities
• charge densities in crystal engineering
• charge densities in materials science
• charge densities and electron diffraction
• charge densities in life sciences
• charge densities at extreme conditions
• charge densities beyond single crystal approach
• physical applications of charge densities
• charge densities of inorganic materials and minerals
• compute or/and measure?
• charge densities towards classical structural analysis
• methods beyond charge densities

The topics of the Conference will highlight results of interdisciplinary research and development of neutron instruments and techniques, including:

• Functional and nanostructured materials;
• Magnetic colloid systems;
• Layered magnetic nanostructures;
• Carbon nanostructures;
• Materials under extreme conditions;
• Soft condensed matter (biological nanosystems, lipid membranes, polymers);
• Lattice and molecular dynamics of materials;
• Texture and properties of rocks and minerals; - Residual stresses in materials and products;
• Neutron imaging;
• Development of IBR-2 instruments;
• Development of neutron scattering techniques; - Development of neutron detectors.

Focus Area Contacts

Focus Area 1: Michael Hennig, Basel for SIG 1:

Focus Area 2: Jürg Schefer, Paul Scherrer Institute Villigen, for SIG 5, 11, 12

Focus Area 3: Piero Macchi, Berne, for SIG 2, SIG 3, SIG 4

Focus Area 4: Katharina Fromm, Fribourg, for SIG 7 and SIG 13

Focus Area 5: Radovan Cerny, Geneva, for SIG 6, SIG 8 and SIG 9

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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