Rigaku OpenLab Cambodia

This Report of the first OpenLab in Cambodia was published in the IUCr Newsletter, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2014).

Rigaku OpenLab Cambodia

7–11 July, 2014

Opening ceremony.

Since mid-2013, when a Rigaku MiniFlex X-ray diffractometer was installed at the Dept. of Georesources and Geotechnical Engineering (GGE) at the Inst. of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) in Phnom Penh, the students in the department have been introduced to X-ray diffraction and crystallography. To increase their knowledge, the first IUCr-UNESCO OpenLab in Cambodia was held at the ITC in conjunction with IYCr2014 from July 7 to 11, 2014.

Lecture by Dr Zema on symmetry and diffraction.

Lecture by Dr Bing on X-ray powder diffraction.