MS details

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Quantum crystallography research

Comments

Large scale facilities including free electron lasers open new opportunities for advances in Quantum Crystallography Research. This is because of a very intense (brilliance) and focused beam and with a time structure that allows the measurement of very small or ultra-dilute samples at different time scales. It is possible to study transient species and fast chemical reactions as well as to perform also biological and geological studies. Additionally, neutron diffraction (spallation sources and reactors) plays a key role in quantum crystallographic research as the nature of neutron beams allow for interactions with the nuclei and the magnetic moment of unpaired electrons in the sample. Neutrons are scattered by all elements along with a deep penetration of the materials. Routinely, synchrotron and neutron facilities are complementary techniques which allow to analysis of the structural details of materials at the atomic scale. Contributions to this MS should go beyond the structural level and cover all quantum crystallography investigations resulting from experiments performed at large scale facilities including free electron lasers.

Chair persons

Name	Family	Institution	City	Country	Region
Katarzyna	Jarzembska	University of Warsaw	Warszawa	Poland	ECA
Yu-Sheng	Chen	Center for Advanced Radiation Sources (CARS), The University of Chicago	Chicago	USA	ACA

Invited speakers

Name	Family	Institution	City	Country	Title
Sophie E	Canton	Deutsches Elektronen-synchrotron Desy	Hamburg	Germany	Visualizing the multiscale structural dynamics of photoexcited molecular complexes with ultrafast hard X-rays
Simon	Grabowsky	University of Bern	Bern	Switzerland	Synchrotron experiments revealing the similarities and differences between crystal and enzyme environmental effects on the electron densities of protease inhibitors and ibuprofen derivatives