• Strongly Correlated Electrons and High Temperature Superconductivity
• Quantum and Classical Spin Systems
• Magnetic Structure and Dynamics
• Spin Electronics and Magnetotransport
• Nanostructures, Surfaces and Interfaces
• Molecular Magnets
• Soft and Hard Magnetic Materials and Applications

The Conference proceedings containing plenary talks and selected papers will be published as a regular issue of Acta Physica Polonica A.

Ultrafast Dynamics with X-Rays and Electrons

• Mechanism of Nucleation and Crystal Growth
• Crystallization at Extreme Conditions and in External Fields
• In-situ Monitoring and Control of Nucleation and Crystal Growth Process
• Technologies for Purification, Waste Treatment and Recovery
• Crystallizer
• Modeling of Crystallization Process
• Crystallization Process Design, Simulation and Control
• Stabilization of Amorphous
• Epitaxial Growth
• Polymorphism
• Phase Transitions
• Crystal Structure
• Intermolecular Interactions
• Chirality and Resolution
• Cocrystal
• Growth of Biological Materials and Biologically-Directed Growth
• Biomineralization,
• Nanostructures and Nanoporous Crystals
• Liquid Crystals
• Novel Materials and Structure

The program will take place in two parallel sessions (ACTS & CGOM) and will include plenary and invited lectures, invited communications, oral communications, poster presentation and an exhibition.

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Invited speakers

Prof. Luigi Ambrosio, Director of DSCTM, CNR, ItalyÂ

Polymer based nano-structures for tissue regeneration.

Dr Roberto Zamboni, Director ISOF-CNR, Italy

Silk: a natural biomaterial enabling advanced optoelectronic and photonic devices for living technologies.

Dr Michele Saviano, Director IC-CNR, Bari, Italy. President of AIC

Molecular targeting in nanomedicine

Dr Dritan Siliqi, IC-CNR, Italy

Synergic use of Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) with crystallography for
the study of bio-materials.

Dr Cinzia Giannini , IC-CNR, Italy

Exploiting high brilliance synchrotron-like micro-focused beams in a table-top facilities to study nano- and bio-materials.

Prof. Arben Merkoci, ICN2, SpainÂ

Nanobiosensing and actuating in lab-on-chip and paper-based lateral flow platforms

 Prof. Salvador Alegret, UAB, Spain

Bioanalitical Nanotechnology. An example of technoscientific convergence

Prof. Víctor F. Puntes, ICN2, Spain

Nanocrystals as reagents: building next generation of nanoparticles.

Dr Teresa Pellegrino, IIT, Italy

 Development of magnetic nanomaterials for intelligent drug delivery and cancer therapy

Prof. Enzo di Fabrizio, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Nanostructures for photonics and sensors in medicine

Prof. Gianluca M. Farinola, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy

 Nanostructures silica from diatoms microalgea: smart  materials for biology and medicine

Dr Lucia Curri, IPCF-CNR, Italy

Inorganic nanoparticles and nanocrystals active in the NIR region for biological applications

A special 3CG session is under planning to celebrate IYCr2014

•  3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth for Optoelectronic Device
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• Â 3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth for Renewable Energy and Energy Storage
  Chairs: Partha Dutta
• Â 3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth in Microgravity and at Externally Imposed FieldsÂ
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•  3CG Workshop on Crystal Growth in the Nano- and Micro-scale
  Chairs:Â Murali Rangarajan
• Â 3CG Workshop on Frontiers in Crystal Engineering
  Chairs: Jagadese J. Vittal
•  3CG Workshop on Functional Materials
  Chairs:Â Suja Elizabeth
•  3CG Workshop on High Pressure Crystal Growth and Diffraction
  Chairs: Robin D. Rogers
•  3CG Workshop on Mesocrystal / Nonclassical Crystallization
  Chairs:
•  3CG Workshop on Modeling and Simulation in Crystal Growth
  Chairs: Xiaobin Niu
• Â 3CG Workshop on Nitrides Thin Films and Applications
  Chairs: Elisabeth Blanquet
•  3CG Workshop on Recent Advances in Growth of Wide Bandgap Materials
  Chairs: Tania Paskova
•  3CG Workshop on Sapphire and Related Materials
  Chairs:Â Kheirreddine Lebbou
• Â 3CG General Workshop on Crystal Growth
  Chairs: Zhiming Wang

 An ancient tradition links the study of crystallography to this city, which during the sixteenth century saw the Medici family attracting on the banks of the Arno river Nicolas Steno, who stated the first law of crystallography. In the same period the Medici started to collect some crystalline specimens, first nucleus of one of the most precious and ancient collections of natural crystals.

The program selected by the Scientific and Organizing committees is thought to support the participation and contacts between members of the two groups involved, enabling the exchange of ideas in scientific fields (such as crystal growth, methods and techniques for structure determination, molecular recognition, polymer and material science, molecular medicine and structural biology), different and sometimes seemingly distant, but all associated with crystallography.

Thus, a hundred years after the international awards for the fundamental importance of studing matter by means of crystals, we are confident that Florence, the cradle of Renaissance ideas, will be the venue in which scientists from different fields will innovate and find stimuli for growth and collaboration.

The Congress will be held at the Bizkaia Aretoa building: the auditorium of the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU) in the city of Bilbao. This building, designed by architect Álvaro Siza , is located in one of the most emblematic areas of Bilbao, over the sea loch and next to the Guggenheim Museum, just in the middle of Abandoibarra Avenue.

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Themes for 2014 symposia include:

• Biomaterials
• Crystal growth
• Crystallography
• Materials for energy
• Porous materials, Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs)
• Nanomaterials

A four day conference focusing on Surface Design and Engineering. The speakers will be world-leading scientists, covering topics in colloids and materials for surface design and surface architecture engineering.

Conference Topics:

• Nanostructured architectures
• Smart particles/surfaces
• Printed and flexible electronics
• Self-assembly of particles/surfaces
• Renewable particle/surface materials
• Food packaging
• Particle/surface coatings
• Particle/surface design for advanced materials and sensors
• Modeling, theory and novel techniques in particle/surface design and engineering

Training School on Engineering of Micro and Nanosurfaces
Sunday 15th June, 09:00-17:00

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NanoFunMat2014 is organized by the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, one of the leading scientific institutions in Central and Eastern Europe. IPC-PAS has a long tradition of organizing high-end meetings gathering some of the leading chemists, physicists and materials scientists from around the world. Perhaps one of the most illustrative examples here is the International Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry (ISSC), which has been held annually since the early 1980s and by now developed into a prestigious International Symposium in Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (for more information, please see ISMSC-8). Last year, we also initiated a symposium devoted to Mechanochemistry in Synthesis and Nanoscience (ISMech2013), which turned out to be an unusual success. NanoFunMat is our next venue and we have high hopes for its success and lasting impact.
The Symposium will cover a broad range of nanomaterials and their applications in electronics, optics, medicine, and more. We hope the meeting will provide a great opportunity to exchange knowledge and ideas with the top-level scientists from the EU and beyond.

Topic Areas

1. Chemistry of molecular precursors

2. Molecular functional materials

3. Semiconducting nanocrystals: design, preparation and applications

4. Functional materials in bioapplications

5. Nanostructured materials for electronics, optoelectronics and photonics

6. Nanostructured soft materials

7. Porous functional materials: design & applications

8. Nanoparticulate metals & metal oxides in catalysis and materials science

Since 1948 a group of distinguished scientists from all over the world and from a wide range of fields gathered at the International Symposium on the Reactivity of Solids to discuss recent results and future experimental developments in the fields of the reactivity of solids. A characteristic feature of this symposium is that it is not a function of a particular society but is arranged by a local organizing committee, with input from many past attendees, and lives on the enthusiasm and on the scientific curiosity of a world-wide community. The flavor is distinctly international and decidedly interdisciplinary.
A special focus will be devoted to reactivity of materials for energy and environment.

TOPICS

1- Transport Phenomena in Solids: Point Defects and Reactivity of Solids

2- Reactivity and nanomaterials

3- Reactivity and Catalysis

4- Reactivity of Materials for Energy and Environment

5- Reactivity and composite materials

6- Functional Materials for Sustainable Energy Systems (Batteries, thermoelectrics, solar cells, ...)

7- Reactivity of Solids in the Geologic and Planetary Environment

8- Novel materials and new synthesis routes

9- Chemistry in unconventional media (ionic liquids, supercritical fluids, ...)

10- Advances in Characterization of Reacting Solids

11- Theory and modelling

Chronology

1984 Â Dijon, France
1988 Â Princeton, USA
1992 Â Madrid, Spain
1996 Â Hamburg, Germany
2000 Â Budapest, Hungary
2003 Â Kyoto, Japan
2007 Â Minneapolis, USA
2011 Â Arcachon, France
2013Â Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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• Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) in Kyushu University, Japan,
• Polish Supramolecular Chemistry Network Foundation, and the
• Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

The chemistry-based bottom-up nanoscience techniques evolved from colloid chemistry, a key topic in physical chemistry since the late 19^th century. The major difference to classic colloid chemistry is the molecular control with which synthetic nanomaterials can be built up and investigated. This will be discussed in sessions dealing with the tailor-made synthesis of high quality nanostructured materials, the investigation of nucleation and the growth and assembly of nano-objects into complex hybride structures with advanced functionality. A strong boost in nanoscience came from the development of structural and chemical analysis techniques with atomic resolution and from the possibility to perform spectroscopic investigations and transport measurements on single nano-objects. Therefore, special sessions are devoted to topics such as the structural and electronic characterization, spectroscopy on the nanoscale, and the investigation of transport properties. Strongly correlated to these topics is the development of theoretical methods for the descriptions of such large systems with high accuracy. Furthermore, the application of nanoparticles in the life sciences, including the biological response to nanoparticles, the visualization of biological processes using specifically functionalized nanoparticles in combination with modern molecular imaging techniques will be part of the scientific program. Besides fascinating basic science, the conference will cover aspects of applications that arose in nanotechnology including high-tech materials with improved mechanical properties, novel materials for lightning, display technologies, catalysis, energy conversion and storage, as well as contrast agents and drug delivery systems for diagnosis and therapy.

Overall, nanoscience is a true transdiciplinary topic covering physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and engineering. Since physical chemistry plays a central role in all these areas, the Bunsentagung 2014 will highlight these aspects as the main topic. Internationally outstanding scientists will give the opening and plenary lectures and progress reports on the various aspects of nanoscience and technology. Almost all of these topics will intentionally overlap with the more generic topical areas of the Bunsentagung 2014 to foster interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations on a leading edge level of expertise.

Plenary Speakers

• Hitoshi Murayama (Director, KAVLI IPMU, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
• Sadamichi Maekawa (Director General, ASRC, JAEA, Japan)
• Marc Schyns (BNRC, Belgium)
• Tadashi Koseki (J-PARC, Japan)
• Takehiko Saito (GSI, Germany)
• Shoji Nagamiya (Former Director of J-PARC Center & Science Advisor of RIKEN, Japan)
• Jean-Michel Poutissou (TRIUMF, Canada)Â
• Masatoshi Futakawa (J-PARC, Japan)
• Ken Andersen (ESS, Sweden)
• Klaus Kirch (PSI, Switzerland)
• Rob McQueeney (ORNL, USA)

The EMAS Regional Workshops are biennial events designed to provide postgraduate-level and research workers in materials science, material engineering and related subjects, with basic knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of electron probe X-ray microanalysis. The workshops are organised as low budget meetings with lectures on practical and theoretical aspects of EPMA given by internationally recognised experts. The format and content of the meetings are tailored to the needs of the practical microanalyst routinely dealing with problems of instrumental procedures, specimen preparation, data collection and quantification, as well as those of research workers keen to obtain a deeper understanding of the physics underlying X-ray production, measurement and analysis.Â

E-MRS 2014 FALL MEETING

The International Workshop on Bulk Nitride Semiconductor (IWBNS) is designed to implement and increase information exchange and collaboration among academic, industrial, and government scientists on challenges of growing high quality Group III nitride crystals with low concentration of structural defects and controlled conductivity type.Â

The IWBNS-VIII will focus on the most recent advances and potential approaches to solve remaining challenges on group-III nitride crystals growth and conductivity type control, surface preparation, fast growth and deposition rates, polarity control, device grade homoepitaxial films, doping, characterization, optical and electronic properties, device fabrication and characterization, modeling and theory.Â

The very generous support of the German Science Foundation (DFG) is gratefully acknowledged.Â

FALL 14 N: Crystallography in materials science: Novel methods for novel materials

• in instrumentation
• availability of improved X-ray beams (high intensity, collimation down to tens of nanometers)
• elaboration of new software and databases for structure analysis).

• construction of phase diagrams
• explanation of physicochemical properties of materials
• materials design
• materials applications at specific conditions
• structure property relationship in specific materials
• dynamic changes (chemical reactions), even those occuring at the femtosecond scale,
• solving energy related problems,
• biological applications,
• solving geophysical problems

Themes:Â

• Materials for Energy and Sustainability
• Materials for Life, Health and the Environment
• Basic Materials and Nanoscience
• Materials Technology, Processing and Metallurgy
• Infrastructure Materials
• Materials Education and Networking