November 2015 – CrystEngComm Blog

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Prize winners at the 24th Symposium on Organic Crystals

25 Nov 2015

Congratulations to our CrystEngComm prize winner Tomonori Ikegami (Hokkaido University) who was awarded for best oral presentation at the 24^thSymposium on Organic Crystals which took place at Hiroshima University, Japan from the 1^st– 3^rdNovember 2015.

The symposium was organized by the Organic Crystals Division of the Chemical Society of Japan. Hiromitsu Urakami, our RSC representative for Japan was in attendance and commented that the award was “very well received” by the attendants at the symposium.

The president of the Organic Crystals Division, Professor Rui Tamura (Kyoto University) was also on hand to present awards.

(Far left) Professor Rui Tamura (Kyoto University & Organic Crystals Division President) with Hiromitsu Urakami (RSC) and award winners

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Poster prize winners at ECM29

24 Nov 2015

(Far left) Professor Christer Aakeroy (Associate Editor, CrystEngComm) with the poster prize winners

Many congratulations to the following CrystEngComm poster prize winners: Josefina Perles (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), Laura Valles Rios (Freie Universitat, Berlin) and Shu Tsukui (Kyoto University, Japan) who were presented with their certificates by our Associate Editor, Professor Christer Aakeroy at the 29^thEuropean crystallographic meeting which took place in Rovinj, Croatia from the 23^rd-28^thAugust 2015.

The meeting took 4 years of preparation and stemmed from the Executive Committee of the Croatian Crystallographic Association (CCA) accepting an invitation of the European Crystallographic Association to present the bid to host the ECM29 in Croatia.

Further information about the meeting can be viewed here.

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Poster prize winners at The 2nd ICSU/IUPAC Workshop

02 Nov 2015

CrystEngComm would like to congratulate the following who were awarded poster prizes for their contributions at the 2nd ICSU/IUPAC Workshop on Crystal Engineering which took place in Como, Italy from the 30^thAugust – 1^stSeptember 2015.

Vijith Kumar (Politecnico di Milano, Italy): ‘Dynamic Separation of Homologous Dicarboxylic Acids by Nonporous Organic Solids’
Hannes Kulla (BAM, Germany): ‘Direct in Situ Analysis of Milling Reactions using Synchrotron XRD and Raman Spectroscopy’
Luca Catalano (Politecnico di Milano, Italy): ‘Modular Preparation and Dynamic Characterization of Halogen-Bonded Crystalline Molecular Rotors’
Davide Capucci (University of Parma, Italy): ‘Stabilization of Drug Molecules Through Co-Crystallization and Their Solubility Properties’

Participation at the workshop was free and and consisted of invited lectures by internationally renowned leaders in the field with plenty of opportunities for young scientists’ networking with both peers and recognized leaders in the field.

Further details about the event can be found on the website.

CrystEngComm poster prize winners (from top to bottom: Luca Catalano & Vijith Kumar)

CrystEngComm poster prize winners (from top to bottom: Hannes Kulla & Davide Capucci)

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Showcasing the breadth of research published in CrystEngComm

02 Nov 2015

Below, you can find a selection of articles that showcase the breadth of cutting-edge research published in CrystEngComm, on the design and understanding of solid-state and crystalline materials.

We want to share these articles with you, for your reading pleasure.

IR spectroscopy as a probe for C–H⋯X hydrogen bonded
supramolecular synthons
Subhankar Saha, Lalit Rajput, Sumy Joseph, Manish Kumar
Mishra, Somnath Ganguly and Gautam R. Desiraju
CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 1273–1290