Topics

• Crystal Growth and Ontogenia

• Mineral Structures

• Chemical Crystallography

• Nano- & Micro-sized materials

• Macromolecular crystallography

• Defects, microstructures and textures

• Structure-Properties relationship

• Experimental Techniques and Equipment

Instructions for manuscript preparation and submission

Program and Book of abstracts.

Organizers

Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry - BAS


Geological Institute - BAS

Speakers

 

Book of abstracts (pdf format)

Program

Monday 3 October

 

8:00 – 12:30

Registration

9:00 – 9:30

 

Opening ceremony

 

Session 1

Chairing: Daniela Kovacheva

9:30 – 10:00

Mois Aroyo, PhD
University of the Basque Country, Spain

Structure relationships studies by the Bilbao crystallographic server

10:00 – 10:30

Vesselin Tonchev, PhD

 Institute of physical chemistry, BAS

Self-organization on Vicinal Crystal Surfaces with Competing Interactions: Kinetics of Pattern Formation

10:30 – 11:00

 

Coffee break

 

Session 2

Chairing: Thomas Kerestedjian

11:00 – 11:30

Andrey Karshikoff, PhD

Institute of Molecular Biology, BAS, Sofia

What happens after X-ray structure is solved – lessons from protein ionisation equilibria

11:30 – 12:00

Milen Gateshki, PhD

PANalytical V.B.
Structural phase transitions in Sr2MWO6 and SrLaMRuO6 double perovskite
oxides

12:00 – 13:30

 

Lunch break

Session 3

Chairing: Boris Shivachev

13:30 – 14:00

Ognyan Petrov, PhD

Institute of mineralogy and crystallography, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

Analysis of structure factors (Fhkl) of meaningful XRD diffraction intensities for chemical determinations after ion-exchange and isomorphic substitutions in crystal structures

14:00 – 14:30

Thomas Kerestedjian, PhD

Geological Institute, BAS

The thermal device of the image foil Guinier camera in the Geological Institute, BAS: Calibration and usage experience

14:30 – 15:00

 

Coffee break

 

Session 4

Chairing: Ognyan Petrov

15:00 – 15:30

Stephan Moreau, PhD

Setaram, France

Thermal analysis, basic theory and applications to inorganic materials

15:30 – 16:00

Nikolay Georgiev, PhD

Astel, Bulgaria

Научна апаратура с приложение в материалознанието

16:00 – 18:00

 

Poster session &  Cocktail

 

Tuesday 4 October

 

Session 5

Chairing: Rositsa Petrova Nikolova

9:30 – 10:00

Peter Tzvetkov

Institute of general and inorganic chemistry, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

New perovskites-based PbBaFe2-XMnXO5 (0≤X≤1.5)

10:00 – 10:30

Kiril Krezhov, PhD

Institute for nuclear research and nuclear energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

 Structural investigations of magnetoelectric materials by neutron diffraction

10:30 – 11:00

 

Coffee break

 

Session 6

Chairing: Galina Gentcheva

11:00 – 11:30

Annie Shoumkova, PhD

Institute of physical chemistry, BAS, Sofia,

Synthesis of zeolite A from Bulgarian rice husk and waste aluminum

11:30 – 12:00

Kamen Kamenov

Bruker AXS, Germany

 Presentation of Bruker-AXS GmbH

12:00 – 13:30

 

Lunch break

 

Session 7

Chairing: Vladislav Kostov-Kytin

13:30 – 14:00

Milen Gateshki, PhD

PANalytical V.B.

Presentation of PANalytical: EasySAXS: Nanoparticle size distribution determination on a multi-purpose X-ray diffractometer

14:00 – 14:30

Ivan Tomov, PhD

Sofia, Bulgaria

Nullification of Extinction Effects in XRD Characterizations of Real Structure of Materials

14:30 – 15:00

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

Group Photo

15:00 – 15:30

Chairing: Ognyan Petrov

15:30 – 17:00

Annual meeting of BCA – Chairing: Ognyan Petrov,

Annual Report of the BCA Steering Committee and Planning of BCA Further Activities.

 

 

 

Poster session & cocktail:
    Monday 3 October 16:00-18:00 h


Round Tables,
    Tuesday 4 October 15:30-17:00


    1. Annual meeting of BCA – Chairing: Ognyan Petrov,

    2. Annual Report of the BCA Steering Committee and Planning of BCA Further Activities.
 

Wednesday 5 October: Lab visits


1. Labs loacated in the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry -BAS


2. Labs loacated in the Geological Institute - BAS

 

3. Labs loacated in the Faculty of Chemistry - Sofia University

 

4. Labs loacated in the Institute of Mineralogy & Crystallography - BAS

 

5. Labs located in the Faculty of Chemistry, Sofia University.