CrystEngComm at the 2nd Southeast Asian Conference on Crystal Engineering

21 Aug 2018

This August the 2nd Southeast Asian Conference on Crystal Engineering (SEACCE-2) was held at Sunway University, Malaysia.

Hosted by Professor Edward R.T. Tiekink, Head the Research Centre for Crystalline Materials at Sunway, the event aims to bring together researchers from Southeast Asian Nations, along with China and India, to discuss recent advances from across the fields of crystallography, crystal engineering, supramolecular chemistry, and more! Over 100 delegates participated in the activities with good representation from Thailand, India, The People’s Republic of China, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and hosts Malaysia. Featuring internationally renowned keynote speakers Gautam Desiraju, Chen Xiao-Ming and Jagadese J. Vittal as well as submitted talks and poster presentations, the conference gave emerging investigators and students to network with some of the leaders in the field.

CrystEngComm was pleased to support the event by offering awards for outstanding flash poster talks. The presenters were challenged to communicate and highlight the significance of their research effectively in three minutes using only a single static slide.

The winners of this challenging task were:

		Cao Chenchen Sun Yat-Sen University (People’s Republic of China) Linker Installation to Constructs a Bifunctional Metal-Organic Framework as Heterogeneous Catalyst for Stepwise Organic Transformations
		Dr Suman Bhattacharya University of Limerick (Republic of Ireland) Temperature-dependent Phase Switching in a 2D Layered MOF
		Bibhuti Bhusan Rath National University of Singapore (Singapore) Structural Transformation of Photoreactive Helical Coordination Polymers to Two Dimensional Structures
		Dr Mark Lee Wun Fui Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Malaysia) Supramolecular Assembly of Rhenium(I) Complexes Mediated by Ligand Planarity via Interplay of Substituents