Conferences
22–30 August 2020, Prague, Czech Republic
General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography
Crystallography nowadays is very interdisciplinary extending from structural biology, pharmacy and chemistry to physics and materials science. It includes study of structure of proteins but also for example the crystals structure and microstructure of minerals, new functional materials, nanoparticles, bulk materials, and thin films. It is interested also in relation between structure and function of materials. Important related topics is development of instrumental techniques for structural characterization of materials including large facilities – XFELs, synchrotrons and neutron sources but also continuous improvement of laboratory equipments, development of optics, better and faster detectors.
The core methods of crystallography are X-ray and neutron scattering. However, mainly in last decade, it includes electron diffraction and microscopy, NMR and different spectroscopies. This development also allows investigation of structural changes under extreme conditions like high and low temperatures, high pressures, time-resolved studies, different in-situ experiments in external fields (magnetic, electric), chemical reactions.
The scope of the congress comprises all this. Moreover, this is the 25th anniversary congress and completes one era of these congresses that started in 1948.
