Karlsruhe 2017

Microsymposium “Lightning talks of young crystallographers 1 & 2”
and Get-Together of the “Young Crystallographers”
at the 25th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society

Organizer: Melanie Nentwich (Freiberg/DE)
Chairs: Matthias Zschornak (Freiberg/DE), Hartmut Stöcker (Freiberg/DE), Alexander Pöthig (München/DE), Linda Hollenbeck (Bochum/DE), Michael Haiduk (Bochum/DE), Gregor Hofer (Zürich/CH), Falk Meutzner (Freiberg/DE)

Monday March 27th – Thursday 30th 2017
@ Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

31 abstracts of young scientists were selected for 5-minute presentations during two lightning talk sessions and subsequent poster sessions.
STOE sponsored three prizes that were awarded by a committee of three experienced scientists to:

Antje Hirsch, RWTH Aachen
Matthias Künzle, RWTH Aachen
Zoltán Balogh-Michels, Empa Dübendorf

The winning posters:

Synthesis and characterisation of various monazite solid solution series, Antje Hirsch

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Binary Protein Crystals for the Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticle Superlattices, Matthias Künzle

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The growth kinetics and the structure of expanded austenite in AISI316L stainless steels characterized by in-situ XRD, Zoltán Balogh-Michels

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The presentations given at the microsymposium “LT1 – Lightning Talks of Young Crystallographers” were:

  • LT1-01 (P68), “The UV-triggered decomposition of 3-(4-pyridyl)-acetylacetone”, Marius Kremer (Aachen/DE)
  • LT1-02 (P25), “Structure-property relationships in mullite-type and related compounds”, Linda Hollenbeck (Bochum/DE)
  • LT1-03 (P48), “Understanding of electrochemical mechanism of 4d layered cathode Li2RuO3: in situ synchrotron study combined with electrochemical kinetics”, Ye Yao (Changchun/CN)
  • LT1-04 (P77), “Hydrothermal preparation of LFP particles with high crystalline for electrochemistry”, Guiying Tian (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen/DE)
  • LT1-05 (P144), “High-Resolution Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Investigations of β-Rhombohedral Boron”, Claudio Eisele (Bayreuth/DE)
  • LT1-06 (P54), “Specificity of the rhodopsin transducin interaction”, Dennis Kwiatkowski (Berlin/DE)
  • LT1-07 (P65), “Materials inspired by nature: synthesis and characterisation of perryite-related compounds Ni8-xFexSi3 with 0≤x≤8″, Simone Gallus (Aachen/DE)
  • LT1-08 (P24), “Elastic properties and phase transitions of pure and Mn-doped åkermanite”, Michael Haiduk (Bochum/DE)
  • LT1-09 (P159), “Lab-based x-ray diffractometer for the investigation of low temperature magnetic field-induced phase transitions”, Tom Faske (Darmstadt/DE)
  • LT1-10 (P184), “Synthesis and characterisation of monazite solid solution series”, Antje Hirsch (Aachen/DE)
  • LT1-11 (P167), “Binary Protein Crystals for the Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticle Superlattices”, Matthias Künzle (Aachen/DE)
  • LT1-12 (P82), “Boehmite (γ-AlOOH) nanoparticles as model system for monitoring particle formation in water based reaction media within the second time scale”, Stefan Diez (Erlangen/DE)
  • LT1-13 (P21), “Investigation of inversion domains in HTVPE GaN layers grown on sapphire substrates”, Michael Barchuk (Freiberg/DE)
  • LT1-14 (P52), “In operando X-ray Total Scattering Experiments on Li-Oxygen Batteries”, Andy Fiedler (Eggenstein Leopoldshafen/DE)
  • LT1-15 (P39), “X-ray Crystallographic Fragment Screening and Hit Optimization”, Nicole Bertoletti (Marburg/DE)
  • LT1-16 (P98), “Maximum vacancy ordering in mullite”, Paul Klar (Bilbao/ES)

The presentations given at the “LT2 – Lightning Talks of Young Crystallographers” microsymposium were:

  • LT2-01 (P4), “Spin density of a cAAC-based stable radical from single-crystal X-ray diffraction”, Marion Flatken (Düsseldorf/DE)
  • LT2-02 (P23), “Synthesis, Characterization of compounds of earth alkaline rare-earth aluminates”, Chimednorov Otgonbayar (Halle (Saale)/DE)
  • LT2-03 (P83), “In-situ time-resolved XRD and RHEED study of the polytypsim in GaAs nanowires”, Julian Jakob (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Karlsruhe/DE)
  • LT2-04 (P96), “Modelling Disorder with DSR in ShelXle and Olex2”, Daniel Kratzert (Freiburg/DE)
  • LT2-05 (P147), “The growth kinetics and the structure of expanded austenite in AISI316L stainless steels characterized by in-situ XRD”, Zoltán Balogh-Michels (Dübendorf/CH)
  • LT2-06 (P55), “Structural Characterization of Fluorescence Optimized Bacterial Phytochromes as Optogenetic Tool”, Luisa Sauthof (Berlin/DE)
  • LT2-07 (P51), “P2-Na0.66Co0.95Ti0.05O2: a high performance cathode material for sodium ion batteries”, Angelina Sarapulova (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen/DE)
  • LT2-08 (P64), “Synthesis of Sphalerite – different ways to obtain chemically pure and doped Material”, Judith Heinrich (Freiberg/DE)
  • LT2-09 (P16), “In-situ synchrotron XRPD study of crystallization kinetics of CaCO3 in liquid microjet”, Ahmed Mohammed (Villigen/CH)
  • LT2-10 (P75), “In-situ time-resolved X-ray diffraction of a single GaAs nanowire during thermal annealing and at growth conditions”, Seyed Mohammad Mostafavi Kashani (Siegen/DE)
  • LT2-11 (P47), “In situ Studies of NASICON-type Ca0.5Ti2(PO4)3@carbon for Sodium-Ion Batteries”, Qiang Fu (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen/DE)
  • LT2-13 (P69), “Fostering what is needed tomorrow – facing problems in teaching crystallographic topics”, Stefanie Langenstück (Aachen/DE)
  • LT2-14 (P186), “Synthesis, compressibility and stability of W7Re13B”, Christopher Neun (Frankfurt/DE)
  • LT2-15 (P43), “A systematic in situ and real-time investigation of mechanochemical formation of pharmaceutical cocrystals”, Luzia S. Germann (Stuttgart/DE)
  • LT2-16 (P73), “Time-resolved in-situ high-resolution X-ray diffraction of growing self-catalysed GaAs nanowires”, Philipp Schroth (Siegen, Karlsruhe/DE)