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Scientific sessions
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Friday, August 26, 2005
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Monday, August 29, 2005
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
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Wednesday, August 24 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 1
(Michelangelo Hall)
"Luigi Sacconi" medal awarded by Luigi Sacconi Foundation and Italian Chemical Society (SCI)
Roald Hoffmann
Chair:
Joel Bernstein
A Theoretician's View of Crystallography
9.30-10.00 Break
10.00-12:35
MS 1
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Naomi Chayen
Janet Newman
When Bad Crystals Turn Good: Transforming Poorly Diffracting Crystals
more...
MS 2
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Lynne Regan
Paul Curmi
Chameleon Proteins
more...
MS 3
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Shiv P. Halasyamani
Reiko Kuroda
Chiral and Non-centrosymmetric Structures
more...
MS 4
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Elias Vlieg
Robin D. Rogers
Polymorphism
more...
MS 5
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Juan Manuel Perez-Mato
Ulrich Bismayer
Structural Phase Transitions
more...
MS 6
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
David Rendle
Izumi Nakai
Crystallography and Forensic Science
more...
MS 7
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Wulf Depmeier
Herta Effenberger
Crystal Chemistry of Inorganic and Mineral Compounds
more...
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
12.35-14.35
OCM 01 Commission on Journal (I)
13.35-14.35
Poster Session
14.45-17.20
MS 8
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Jacqueline M. Gulbis
Michael R. Garavito
MembraneProtein Structure and Function
more...
MS 9
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Settimio Mobilio
Joaquin Garcia-Ruiz
Combined XAS and XRD Techniques in Physics Chemistry and Materials Science
more...
MS 10
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Andreas Roodt
Santiago Alvarez
Integrated Crystallographic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Approaches
more...
MS 11
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Thomas Tschentscher
John Arthur
Instrumentation at Next Generation X-ray Sources
more...
MS 12
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Reinhard Neder
Thomas Proffen
Disorder Diffuse Scattering
more...
MS 13
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Brian H. Toby
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick
Advances in Computational Methods for Powder Diffraction
more...
MS 14
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Emil Makovicky
Stefano Merlino
Modularity and Modulation in Inorganic and Mineral Structures
more...
17.20-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30
KN 2
(Botticelli Hall)
Martino Bolognesi
Chair:
Dusan Turk
Structure and Recognition in the BARS/CtBP-dependent Transcription Regulation.
KN 3
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chikashi Toyoshima
Chair:
Giuseppe Inesi
Ion Pumping by Ca
2+
-ATPase of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
KN 4
(Cimabue Hall)
Walter Reimers
Chair:
Anatoly Balagurov
Neutrons and X-rays for Microstructure and Strain/Stress Analysis in Materials
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Thursday, August 25 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 5
(Michelangelo Hall)
David Sayre
Chair:
John Spence
Single-particle Diffraction
KN 6
(Botticelli Hall)
Lynne McCusker
Chair:
Reinhard Fischer
Elucidating the Structures of Nanoporous Microcrystals
KN 7
(Cimabue Hall)
Vaclav Petricek
Chair:
Ray L. Withers
Structure Analysis of Modulated Crystals: Trends and Tendencies
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00
Computer Fayre
10.00-12:35
MS 15
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Edward Neill Baker
Sung-Hou Kim
The Big Question in Structural Genomics: Getting Function from Structure
more...
MS 16
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Gian Carlo Ruocco
Alfred Baron
High Resolution X-ray Inelastic Scattering
more...
MS 17
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Gautam R. Desiraju
Mariusz Jaskolski
Non-covalent Interactions in Crystals of Small Molecules and Macromolecules
more...
MS 18
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Christian Baerlocher
Sergey Krivovichev
Powder Diffraction on Micro- and Mesoporous Materials
more...
MS 19
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Sander Van Smaalen
Sven Lidin
News from Incommensurate Crystals
more...
MS 20
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Simon Parsons
Giovanni Luca Cascarano
Advances in Computational Methods for Small Molecule Crystallography
Dedicated to the late Prof. Mario Nardelli
more...
MS 21
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Lyndon Edwards
Alain Lodini
Basic to Industrial Applications of Stress and Strain Analyses with Synchrotron and Neutron Radiations
more...
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
12.35-14.35
OCM 02 Commission on Journal (II)
13.35-14.45
Poster Session
14.45-17.20
MS 22
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Janos Hajdu
Henry Chapman
Single Particle X-ray Diffraction Imaging
more...
MS 23
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
E. Yvonne Jones
Peer R. Mittl
Putting the Pedal to the Metal: Speeding Up Biological Structure Determination
more...
MS 24
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Judith A.K. Howard
Jacqueline Cole
Molecular Crystals under non Ambient Conditions
more...
MS 25
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Andrew Fitch
John Faber
Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Data (Organics)
more...
MS 26
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Koh Saitoh
Ron Lifshitz
Recent Advances in Quasicrystal Research
more...
MS 27
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Naoto Yagi
Christian Broennimann
Detectors: Developments and Requirements for X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Sources
more...
MS 28
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
João Rocha
Alessandro Gualtieri
Structure/Properties Relationships of Technologically Relevant Inorganic and Mineral Compounds
more...
17.20-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30
KN 8
(Michelangelo Hall)
Raymond Stevens
Chair:
Mamannamana Vijayan
High Throughput Technologies in Structural Biology
KN 9
(Botticelli Hall)
Peter Stephens
Chair:
Kenneth Shankland
Structure Solution of Pharmaceutical Compounds from Powder Diffraction Data
KN 10
(Cimabue Hall)
Akiji Yamamoto
Chair:
Marc De Boissieu
Quasicrystal Structure Analysis. The State of the Art
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Friday, August 26 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 11
(Michelangelo Hall)
Andrej Sali
Chair:
Douglas Ohlendorf
Structure of Protein Assemblies by Comparative Modeling and Electron Microscopy
KN 12
(Botticelli Hall)
Roberto Dovesi
Chair:
Davide Viterbo
Quantum mechanical simulation of the vibrational properties of garnets.
KN 13
(Cimabue Hall)
Abraham Clearfield
Chair:
Roberto Fornari
In Situ X-Ray Study of Hydrothermally Prepared Titanates and Silicotitanates
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00
Computer Fayre
10.00-11.00 Special Seminar, Jan Boeyens: "The Crystallographic Game" (Brunelleschi Hall)
10.00-12:35
MS 29
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Philip Eric Bourne
R. Sowdhamini
Improving Structures using Bio-informatics
more...
MS 30
(Michelangelo Hall)
The MS on Art and Crystallography is sheduled at 9. p.m., in a unique after-dinner session
MS 31
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Franco Ugozzoli
Claire Gervais
Supramolecular Chemistry
more...
MS 32
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Angela Altomare
Holger Putz
Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Data (Inorganics)
more...
MS 33
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Roger Fourme
Wilson Poon
Soft Condensed Organic-Biological Materials under Pressure
more...
MS 34
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Louis Farrugia
Tibor Koritsanszky
Advances in Computational Methods for Electron Density Studies
more...
MS 35
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Giovanni Ferraris
Elena Belokoneva
Polytypism and Twinning
more...
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
12.35-14.35
OCM 03 COMCIFS The Current Status and Future Prospects of CIF
12.35-14.35
OCM 04 Commission on Biological Macromolecules
13.35-14.45
Poster Session
14.45-17.20
MS 36
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Elspeth Garman
Ming Luo
Combating Viruses
more...
MS 37
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Yoshiro Yoneda
David Owen
Intracellular Trafficking of Biomolecules
more...
MS 38
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Christer Aakeroy
Alessia Bacchi
Controlled Building of Crystals from Non-covalent Interactions
more...
MS 39
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Robert H. Blessing
Jeremy Cockcroft
Powder Diffraction of Proteins
more...
MS 40
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Giulia Galli
Alessandro Pavese
Computational Crystallography Applied to Extreme Conditions
more...
MS 41
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Duncan E. McRee
James Holton
Computational Solutions for High-Throughput Crystallography
more...
MS 42
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Andreas Schreyer
Mark R. Daymond
Complementarities of Neutron and X-rays Methods in Material Science
more...
17.20-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30
KN 14
(Michelangelo Hall)
Deborah Fass
Chair:
Jennifer Martin
Catalysts of De Novo Disulfide Bond Formation
KN 15
(Botticelli Hall)
A. Guy Orpen
Chair:
Frank H. Allen
Synthetic Crystallography
KN 16
(Cimabue Hall)
John Tse
Chair:
Werner F. Kuhs
A perspective on the crystal structures of high pressure elements and their properties
21.00-23.30
MS 30
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Edgar Meyer
Cristina Acidini
Art and Crystallography
more...
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Saturday, August 27 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 17
(Michelangelo Hall)
Harold Kroto
Chair:
Ivano Bertini
Some New Insights in to the Mechanisms of Fullerene and Nanotube Formation
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00
Computer Fayre
10.00-12:35
MS 43
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Adrian Goldman
Sthanam Narayana
Extracellular Proteins and Cellular Adhesion
more...
MS 44
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Stephen Neidle
Eric Westhof
Nucleic Acids - Transcription, Translation and Repair
more...
MS 45
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Jonathan W. Steed
Carolyn Brock
Packing of Organic Molecular Compounds
more...
MS 46
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Tadashi Ohachi
Vladimir Kaganer
In-situ Observation of Crystal Growth Processes
more...
MS 47
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Colin Pulham
Nancy Ross
Novel Materials under High Pressure
more...
MS 48
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Christian Riekel
Atsuo Iida
Microbeam X-ray Scattering
more...
MS 49
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
John Charles Spence
Brummerstedt Iversen
Charge Spin and Momentum Densities in Material Science
more...
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
12.35-14.35
Round Table on Data Mining from PDB chaired by Helen M. Berman and Kim Henrick
more...
12.35-14.35
OCM 05 Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structure
12.35-14.35
OCM 06 Commission on Charge, Spin and Momentum Densities
12.35-14.35
OCM 07 Commission on International Tables of Crystallography
13.35-14.45
Poster Session
14.45-17.20
MS 50
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Alexander Wlodawer
Silvia Onesti
Enzymes and Allostery
more...
MS 51
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Wah Chiu
Lucia Banci
Complementary Approaches to Biological Structure Determination
more...
MS 52
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Christoph Janiak
Stuart R. Batten
Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials
more...
MS 53
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
John Irvine
Torbjörn Gustafsson
Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
more...
MS 54
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Guillaume Fiquet
Artem Oganov
Crystallography at Conditions of Earth and Planetary Interiors
more...
MS 55
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Jianming Cao
Hervé Cailleau
Time Resolved Diffraction
more...
MS 56
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
José Teixeira
Roberto Triolo
Analysis Combining SANS and SAXS Experiments
more...
17.20-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30
KN 18
(Michelangelo Hall)
Louise N. Johnson
Chair:
John Helliwell
Protein Kinase Inhibition and Substrate Recognition
KN 19
(Botticelli Hall)
James A. Ibers
Chair:
Jan Boeyens
Crystallography in Inorganic Solid-State Chemistry
KN 20
(Cimabue Hall)
Michael Thackeray
Chair:
Peter G. Bruce
The Importance of Structure in the Design of Lithium Battery Materials
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Sunday, August 28 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 21
(Michelangelo Hall)
Michael Parker
Chair:
William L. Duax
Pore-forming Toxins
KN 22
(Cimabue Hall)
Malcolm McMahon
Chair:
Osamo Shimomura
Pressure Induced Complexity in the Elements
KN 23
(Botticelli Hall)
Mark A. Spackman
Chair:
Vladimir Tsirelson
Electrostatic and Related Properties from Accurate Charge Density Analyses
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00
Computer Fayre
10.00-12:35
MS 57
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Kunio Miki
David Stuart
Large Protein Assemblies - Forming and Analysing Complexes
more...
MS 58
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Salvatore Siano
Henk Schenk
Crystallography and Understanding of Cultural Heritage
more...
MS 59
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Paul Raithby
Trevor Forsyth
Applications of Synchrotron and Neutron Facilities in Structural Chemistry
more...
MS 60
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Davor Balzar
Paolo Scardi
Microstructural Properties from Powder Diffraction Data
more...
MS 61
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Mohammed Mezouar
Nozomu Hamaya
Structures Phase Transitions and Properties at High Pressure
more...
MS 62
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Piet Gros
Kevin D. Cowtan
Advances in Computational Methods for Protein Crystallography
more...
MS 63
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Nour Eddine Ghermani
Peter Blaha
Chemical Insights from Electron Density Studies and Wavefunctions
more...
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
13.35-14.45
Poster Session
14.45-17.20
MS 64
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Bi-Cheng Wang
Alexandre Urzhumtsev
Difficult Phasing and Difficult Structures in Structural Biology
more...
MS 65
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Zihe Rao
Brian W. Matthews
Protein Interactions with other Biological Macromolecules
more...
MS 66
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Davide M. Proserpio
Jean-Guillaume Eon
Topology of Crystal Structures: Nets, Knots and Surfaces
more...
MS 67
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Ivana Radosavljevic Evans
Roland Boese
Non-ambient Powder Diffraction and Kinetic Studies
more...
MS 68
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Christopher Tulk
Dennis Klug
Liquids and Amorphous Systems at High Pressure
more...
MS 69
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Hans Hebert
Ute Kolb
Electron Crystallography on Organic Crystals and Biomolecules
more...
MS 70
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Gernot Kostorz
Theyencheri Narayanan
New SAS Frontiers
more...
17.20-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30
KN 24
(Michelangelo Hall)
Nenad Ban
Chair:
Sherry Mowbray
Structural and Functional Studies of Large Macromolecular Assemblies
KN 25
(Cimabue Hall)
Lawrence Margulies
Chair:
Lagomarsino Stefano
Micro Beam Diffraction Using High Energy Synchrotron Radiation
KN 26
(Botticelli Hall)
Dmitri Svergun
Chair:
Giuseppe Zanotti
New Possibilities for Structure Determination of Biomolecular Complexes
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Monday, August 29 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 27
(Botticelli Hall)
Michael Murphy
Chair:
Carrie Wilmot
Bound Ligands to Probe the Activity of Type 2 Copper Sites in Proteins
KN 28
(Cimabue Hall)
Tim White
Chair:
Ekkehart Tillmanns
Crystallochemical Basis of Synthetic Mineral Immobilisation
KN 29
(Michelangelo Hall)
Gerhard Klebe
Chair:
Hans-Beat Buergi
Molecular Recognition Principles in Protein-Ligand Interactions as a Prerequisite for the Design of Specific and Selective Leads
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00
Computer Fayre
10.00-12:35
MS 71
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
David Rose
Massimo Degano
Structural Biology and the Immune System
more...
MS 72
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Glaucius Oliva
Andrew H.-J. Wang
Hot Structures in Protein Crystallography
more...
MS 73
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Catalina Ruiz-Perez
Annie Powell
Molecular Crystals with Novel Physical Properties
more...
MS 74
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Despina Louca
David Keen
Total Scattering and Local Order
more...
MS 75
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Laurence D. Marks
Surfaces
more...
MS 76
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Peter Erk
Sam Motherwell
New Algorithms for Structure Prediction
more...
MS 77
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Masatoshi Arai
Ian Anderson
Perspective of Neutron Crystallography at High Power Sources
more...
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
13.35-14.45
Poster Session
14.00-16.00 and 16.30-18.30
OCM 08 Commission on High Pressure
14.45-17.20
MS 78
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Anders Liljas
Wayne Hendrickson
Structuromes – Structures of Ribosomes Nucleosomes and other -omes
more...
MS 79
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Jordi Rius
Evgeny Antipov
Inorganic and Mineral Structures Solved and Refined by Powder Diffraction Data
more...
MS 80
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Jean-Claude Daran
Pilar Gómez-Sal
Structural Knowledge and Catalysis
more...
MS 81
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Eric Kisi
Paul Barnes
Time-resolved Powder Diffraction for Materials Production and Processing
more...
MS 82
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Ugo Valbusa
Tilo Baumbach
X-ray Characterization of Nanostructures
more...
MS 83
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Christer Svensson
Vincent Favre-Nicolin
Computational Problems and Solutions for Aperiodic Crystals
more...
MS 84
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Szabolcs Vass
salvino Ciccariello
Theoretical Methods for Analyses of Data from Solutions
more...
17.20-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30
KN 30
(Michelangelo Hall)
Janet L. Smith
Chair:
Mitchell Guss
Structural Studies of Macromolecular Complexes: Cytochrome
b
6
f
KN 31
(Botticelli Hall)
Myunghyun Paik Suh
Chair:
Antonio Tiripicchio
Metal-Organic Frameworks: Assembly and Crystal Dynamics of Functional Materials
KN 32
(Cimabue Hall)
Michiyoshi Tanaka
Chair:
Yuji Ohashi
Nano Structures Studied by Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction
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Tuesday, August 30 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 33
(Michelangelo Hall)
Ahmed Zewail
Chair:
Xiadong Zou
Ultrafast Electron Crystallography
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00
Computer Fayre
10.00-12:35
MS 85
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Stefania Di Marco
William (Bill) Stallings
Biological Molecules as Targets for Drug Design
more...
MS 86
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Herbert J. Bernstein
Brian McMahon
Programming Robust CIF and XML into Crystallographic Software
more...
MS 87
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Leonard Richard MacGillivray
Fumio Toda
Reactions in Molecular Solids
more...
MS 88
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
John J. Rehr
Keijo Hamalainen
Electronic Excitations
more...
MS 89
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
José Martín-Gago
Giovanna Fragneto
Structural Characterization of Controlled Solid-liquid Interfaces
more...
MS 90
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
Maryjane Tremayne
Applying Non-crystallographic Algorithms to Crystallography
more...
MS 91
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Jacob Jansen
Vera Kletschkovskaia
Electron Crystallography on Inorganic Crystals
more...
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
13.35-14.45
Poster Session
14.45-17.20
MS 92
(Michelangelo Hall)
Chairs:
Sine Larsen
Michael Becker
Emerging Technologies for Structural Biology
more...
MS 93
(Donatello Hall)
Chairs:
Marcello Mellini
Mihaly Posfai
Crystallography and Environmental Science
more...
MS 94
(Botticelli Hall)
Chairs:
Franck Leveiller
Michele Saviano
Crystallographic Knowledge in Drug Design Strategies
more...
MS 95
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)
Chairs:
Michele Catti
Dimitri Argyriou
Advanced Functional Materials (Including Molecular Biological Fuel Cell Battery)
more...
MS 96
(Giotto Hall)
Chairs:
Åke Oskarsson
Randy Read
Crystallographic Teaching
more...
MS 97
(Cimabue Hall)
Chairs:
Adriana Bigi
Enrico Rizzarelli
Bio-inorganics in Biological Macromolecules
more...
MS 98
(Brunelleschi Hall)
Chairs:
Yoshiyuki Amemiya
Iris Torriani
Analysis of Anisotropic Materials
more...
17.20-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30
KN 34
(Michelangelo Hall)
David Eisenberg
Chair:
Maria Armenia Carrondo
Structural Studies of Amyloid
KN 35
(Cimabue Hall)
Salvador Ferrer
Chair:
Mikhail Koval'chuk
The Surface Structure of Model Catalyst in Action Investigated by X-ray Diffraction
KN 36
(Botticelli Hall)
Lia Addadi
Chair:
Angelo Gavezzotti
Strategies and Design Principles in Biomineralization