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The 2nd ICSU/IUPAC Workshop on Crystal Engineering will be held in Como, Italy on August 30-September 1, 2015.

The Chairmen of the Workshop, Pierangelo Metrangolo and Giuseppe Resnati, invite you to participate in this memorable event.

This international workshop will also serve as the mid-term meeting of the ICSU project CONvINCE “CONcepts and termINology in Crystal Engineering” and of the IUPAC project no. 2012-044-1-100 “Basic Terminology of Crystal Engineering”. The objectives of these projects are to produce guidelines for terminology in the area of crystal engineering.

The program of the workshop will comprise invited lectures by internationally renowned leaders in the field. Poster presentations are also scheduled and opportunities are planned for young scientists’ networking with both peers and recognized leaders in the field.

Participation is free and limited to a maximum number of 150 attendees, which will be selected on a first come first served basis.

The deadline for registration and abstract submission is June 30, 2015.

Full details of the Workshop can be found here.
For more information, please contact the:
Scientific Secretariat: johanna.syvanen@polimi.it or the Organizing Secretariat: chiara.stefanetti@centrovolta.it

The Chemical Crystallography Group of the British Crystallographic Association recently held its 2014 autumn meeting — “Communicating Crystallography” — in conjunction with the Royal Society of Chemistry, on 19th November 2014 at Burlington House, London.

With 2014 being the UNESCO International Year of Crystallography, there was no better time to have a meeting to showcase and discuss crystallography-based outreach and education.

Three sessions of talks encompassed the theme of “Communicating Crystallography” from educational, publishing and data presentation points of view. The session on publishing was delivered by the Royal Society of Chemistry and showed how crystallography (and chemistry) can be disseminated through a range of channels — journals, databases and social media.

Topics covered during the sessions included: outreach to students and the general public; communication of results in journals, databases and social media; and curation of data. The insights gained from the meeting have relevance well beyond the confines of chemical crystallography.

From left to right: Simon J. Coles, Guy Jones, Serin Dabb and David Sait present at “Communicating Crystallography”.

The speakers and the audience were excellently engaged, creating a very successful and enjoyable meeting. Thanks go to all involved!

View the talks from the meeting here.

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This Blog post is based on material kindly provided by Carl Schwalbe (Aston University), Natalie Johnson (University of Newcastle) and Simon J. Coles (University of Southampton; Chair of the Chemical Crystallography Group).

The Royal Society of Chemistry is proud to jointly host the International Conference on Structural Chemistry of Molecules and Materials (SCOMM14) with the University of Calcutta, Jadavpur University and IISER-Kolkata.

It will take place at the Center for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CRNN), University of Calcutta from the 30^th November to 2^nd December 2014.

The conference is being organized to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr) and covers contemporary problems of crystal engineering, materials synthesis, chemical structure and dynamics.

Confirmed Speakers

Professor Gautam Desiraju (IIS Bangalore)

Professor Kumar Biradha (IIT Kharagpur)

Professor Neil Champness (University of Nottingham)

Professor Susan Bourne (University of Cape Town)

Professor Len MacGillivray (University of Iowa)

Professor Russell Morris (University of St Andrew’s)

Professor Chilla Malla Reddy (IISER Kolkata)

Professor George Shimizu (University of Calgary)

Professor Michael Ward (University of Sheffield)

It will focus on all aspects of structural chemistry, including multidisciplinary areas, and will offer the opportunity for scientists from many different countries to exchange their scientific experience as well as to intensify their cooperation to partners.

For full details of confirmed speakers, venue information, and registration. See the website.

Posted on behalf of Elizabeth Woodhouse, Publishing Editor

I recently attended Faraday Conference 170 held at McGill University, Montreal, Canada from 21^st – 23^rd May 2014. The program was chaired by Tomislav Friscic (McGill University) and covered all aspects of mechanochemistry with the aim of bringing together experts in milling mechanochemistry and sonochemistry, organic synthesis, metal-organic and inorganic materials chemistry, physical chemistry, pharmaceutical scientists and green chemistry.

LEFT: A slightly cloudy Montreal skyline. RIGHT: Ready for registration

William Jones (University of Cambridge) opened the conference with an introductory lecture and the discussions began with talks from Leonard MacGillvray (University of Iowa), Graeme Day (University of Southampton) and Tamara Hamilton (Barry University) on the subjects of mechanochemistry of organic molecules, soft materials and pharmaceuticals.

The second day featured discussions on the mechanochemistry of inorganic compounds and coordination-based materials, with Audrey Moores (McGill University) discussing her research on the solvent-free synthesis of biomass-stabilzed gold nanoparticles. The afternoon session focussed on the mechanistic understanding, use in catalysis and scale-up of mechanochemistry and included a discussion led by Achim Stolle (Friedrich-Schiller University) on the scale-up of organic reactions in ball mills.

 

LEFT: The Loving Cup ceremony RIGHT: Gurpaul Kochhar receiving the RSC Skinner prize from Professor Peter Skabara with Dr Tomislav Friscic, co-chair of the organising commitee

The conference dinner included the poster prize giving and the Loving Cup ceremony – a Faraday tradition! Gurpaul Kochhar was presented the RSC Skinner prize for his poster on ‘Predicting reaction barriers under mechanochemical conditions’ Congratulations Gurpaul!

The final day of the conference covered discussions on sonication and macromolecular mechanochemistry and the conference closed with concluding remarks given by Kenneth Suslick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). The next Faraday Conference is FD171: Emerging Photon Technologies for Chemical Dynamics and will be held on the 9^th-11^th July in Sheffield.

The conference “7th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies” was held in Singapore from 30 June- 5 July 2013. CrystEngComm sponsored a poster prize in Symposium X–Crystal Engineering of New Materials. The winner was Pramod Kumar Goswami from IIT-Delhi, with his poster titled “Salts, Salt Co-crystal Hydrate, Co-crystals and Co-crystal Polymorphs of P-aminosalicylic Acid”. Congratulations to Pramod!