Author Archives: Charlie McMonagle

2011 International School on Charge Density

The 2011 International School on Charge Density was held from the 30th August to the 4th September at the Zaragoza University Residence in Jaca, a small town located in the Pyrenees in north east Spain. The residence was a perfect location for the school and Jaca itself is very pretty with many sights and nice… Read More »

Crystallographers play with computers

The Mieres Crystallographic Computing School took place immediately before the IUCr in a town in north Spain called Oviedo. The school was a great success with delegates coming from all over the world from as far away advanced Japan. The school proved to be a great forum to exchange ideas within a specialist area of… Read More »

Madrid Mayhem

From the 22nd to the 29th of August, many crystallographers and young crystallographers united for the IUCr XXII Congress and General Assembly, held in the Palacio de Congresos in Madrid. The very hot temperatures outside did not stop the science, and over the 8 days we had 490 oral presentations and 1550 poster presentations to… Read More »

Cleaning up our water – is m-BiVO4 the answer?

Water contamination by synthetic organic chemicals is a burgeoning global problem due to the difficult degradation of these materials. Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) has been identified as promising photocatalyst for environmental applications because of its stability in water without altering the pH value. A very low band gap of 2.4 keV also means there is potential […]

DREAMS of the Future

On 13th September, 2011, the Directed Assembly Network will be holding its first DREAMS of the Future event (DiREcted Assembly of MaterialS) targeted at early-career researchers. The aim is to help build cross-disciplinary networks of collaborators and promote work within the research fields covered by the Directed Assembly Network. The event will be held at… Read More »

Unprecedently Short Halogen Bonds

Supramolecular synthons based on halogen bonding have been identified as excellent tools for the design and synthesis of supramolecular architectures. This growing field in crystal engineering has led to many discoveries of new and exciting intermolecular bonding motifs.
In this advance article, Kari Raatikainen and Kari Rissanen from the University of Jyväskylä report extremely short X···N […]