Crystallography matters ... more!

This year's exhibition at Carolina Rediviva, Platonic Solids and Quasicrystals, is all about crystallography and shows how this science has been perceived over time. By collaborating with the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University, we can exhibit books side by side with real crystals, models of crystals and instruments that have been used to measure the angles of these strange formations that seem to have been cut and polished by human hand whereas in fact they have been shaped by uniform atomic structures.

Welcome on a beautiful journey through this collection of historical scientific books and artifacts.

The workshop "Frontiers of Crystallography" was held in Novosibirsk State University, as a satellite event of the 3rd International Conference "Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy" and included comprehensive lectures and tutorials on the following topics:

1. Crystal growth in Nature, laboratory and industry
• Crystals and crystallization (a general introduction)
• Crystal growth of non-linear optical materials
• Crystal growth of synthetic diamonds
• Crystal growth and experimental mineralogy
• Crystal growth of magnetic materials

2. High-pressure diffraction and Raman microscopy in crystal genesis and mineralogy
• Instrumentation for generating HP, HP-HT and HP-LT conditions
• Instrumentation for data collection using in situ X-ray diffraction at high pressures
• Processing of high-pressure diffraction data
• In situ Raman microscopy and spectroscopy at high pressures: experimental techniques, data analysis and applications

3. Frontiers of crystallography: aperiodic, twinned and disordered structures

Read a report (in English) | Read a press release (in Russian) | See the photo gallery