The British Crystallographic Association Chemical Crystallography Group (CCG) are hosting their Autumn Meeting on Wednesday 24th November 2021. The event will run over one day and will be held in a virtual format.

The theme of the meeting will be ‘Crystals out of Equilibrium’, with a range of speakers looking at dynamic crystals and processes, functional properties and metastability of crystalline materials.

Meeting programme (all timings GMT)

10:30                           Welcome and opening remarks

10:30 – 12:05              Session 1 (Chair: Dr Helena Shepherd)

10.35 – 11:15              Plenary: Prof Pance Naumov (NYU Abu Dhabi)           The Rise of the Dynamic Crystals

11:15 – 11:40              Dr Hamish Yeung (University of Birmingham)              Buckling under pressure: mechanical control over conducting molecular crystals

11:45 – 12:05              Dr Asel Sartbaeva (University of Bath)                         [Title TBC]

12:05 – 13:00               Lunch break

13:00 – 14:30              Session 2 (Chair: Lucy Hunter)

13:00 – 13:40              Prof Fiona Meldrum (University of Leeds)                    Doped-Up: Bio-Inspired Assembly of Single Crystal Nanocomposites

13:35 – 14:05              Dr Enrico Da Como (University of Bath)                       Memory and hysteresis phenomena in TaS2-xSex crystals grown out of equilibrium

14:05 – 14:30              Dr Claire Hobday (University of Edinburgh)                 [Title TBC]

14:30 – 15:00              Tea break

15:00 – 16:30              Session 3 (Chair: Dr Lauren Hatcher)

15:00 – 15:40              Prof Andrew Weller (University of York)                       Reactivity and Dynamic Processes in Solid State Organometallic Chemistry: Who Needs a Solvent?

15:40 – 16:05              Prof Andrea Laybourn (University of Nottingham)        Controlling MOF crystallisation with microwaves

16:05 – 16:30              Dr Dave Allen (Diamond Light Source)                        Structure under change: observing crystal structure changes under an external influence

16:40                           Closing remarks and end

Early evening social event:

After the meeting there will also be an online social event for continued discussions and the chance to interact with the community a little more informally.

There will be a small registration fee of £10 to cover the costs of technical assistance and to support the scientific endeavours of the CCG.

We look forward to seeing you all (virtually) in November!

Registration for Autumn Meeting 2021

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