The 4th International Online Conference on Crystals
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Crystals series
18–20 Sep 2024
Liquid Crystals, Biomolecular Crystals, Crystal Engineering, Inorganic Crystalline Materials, Organic Crystalline Materials, Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials, materials for energy applications, Crystalline Metals and Alloys
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Publication Opportunities for IOCC 2024 Participants
We invite all IOCC 2024 participants to submit research articles to the Special Issue of Crystals (ISSN: 2073-4352, Impact Factor: 2.4) with a 20% discount on publication fees. Full details can be found here.
All accepted abstracts will be included in the IOCC 2024 conference report, published in Chemistry Proceedings (ISSN: 2673-4583). To publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it after the conference.
The Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster Awards are under evaluation. Thank you for your patience!
We look forward to your contributions!
Welcome from the Chair
You are cordially invited to participate in the 4th International Electronic Conference on Crystals (IOCC 2024), sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Crystals. This is a new and improved initiative based on the experience from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd International Electronic Conference on Crystals, (https://iecc_2018.sciforum.net/; https://iocc_2020.sciforum.net/; https://iocc_2022.sciforum.net/) which affords the opportunity for researchers engaged in the study of crystalline materials to present their research and exchange ideas with their colleagues. We take full advantage of the Internet, removing the need to travel and omit participation expenses. This is a virtual conference held at Sciforum.net. Sciforum.net is a platform developed and sponsored by MDPI to organize electronic conferences, and to provide our community with the technical support for hosting our digital conferences.
The fourth conference will be organized around the following topics and related themes.
1. Liquid Crystals
2. Crystal Engineering
3. Inorganic Crystalline Materials
4. Organic Crystalline Materials
5. Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials
6. Materials for Energy Applications
7. Crystalline Metals and Alloys
Participants stand a chance to win six highly coveted Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards, with prize money.
All accepted abstracts will be included in the IOCC 2024 conference report, published in Chemistry Proceedings (ISSN: 2673-4583). To publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it after the conference (Deadline: November 22nd, 2024). Selected extended versions of the papers can be published in the journal Crystals with a discount of 20% on the Article Processing Charge (ISSN 2073-4352; Impact Factor: 2.4).
I am looking forward to seeing your participation in these exciting discussions, hearing new ideas and perspectives in the field and welcoming all participants to the online conference.
Conference Chair:
Prof. Dr. Alessandra Toncelli
Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy
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Program Overview
18th Morning | 19th Morning | 20th Morning |
Session 1. Liquid Crystals | Session 7. Crystalline Metals and Alloys |
Session 3. Inorganic Crystalline Materials |
18th Afternoon | 19th Afternoon | 20th Afternoon |
Session 5.Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials |
Session 2. Crystal Engineering | Session 6. Materials for Energy Applications |
IOCC 2024 Program (DAY1)
IOCC 2024 Day 1
Session 1. Liquid Crystals
Date: 18th September 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
09:00-09:10 | Prof. Dr. Alessandra Toncelli Event Chair |
Welcome from the Event Chair |
09:10-09:15 | Prof. Dr. Vladimir Chigrinov Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
9:15-9:40 | Prof. Dr. Vladimir Chigrinov Invited Speaker |
Liquid Crystal Photoalignment by Azodye Nanolalayers: Physics and Applications |
9:40-10:05 | Dr. Yuri Panarin Invited Speaker |
Giant Dielectric Permittivity in the Ferroelectric Nematics |
10:05-10:20 | Omar Aljohani | Thermally Stabilizing and Tuning Photonic Liquid Crystal Phases with Nanoparticles |
10:20-10:35 | Stanisław Różański | The effect of liquid crystal electrolyte modification on the efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells |
10:35-10:50 | Ankita Sutar | Exploring Optical Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals dispersed with Perovskite Quantum Dots |
10:50-11:05 | Seiji Fukushima | Design method of a variable-focus-length lens employing a liquid-crystal-loaded metasurface |
11:05-11:20 | Abhilash T K | Integration of Cellulose Nanocrystals Derived from Plants as Pre-Alignment Layers for Ferroelectric Mesogens in Display Technology |
11:20-11:35 | Chung-Hao Chen | Refilled polymer-stabilised liquid crystals |
Session 5. Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials
Session 4. Organic Crystalline Materials
Date: 18th September 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
14:00-14:10 | Prof. Dr. Ferdinando Costantino Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
14:10-14:35 | Prof. Dr. Silvia Bracco Invited Speaker |
Dynamics and Luminescent Properties in Nanoporous Crystalline Architectures |
14:35-14:50 | Sara Illescas | Composite Protein Crystals doped with Metal Nanoparticles as a complete antibacterial system |
14:50-15:05 |
Nadia Anter | Extraction and Modification of Cellulose nanocrystals |
15:05-15:20 | Marco Sanna Angotzi | The Intricate Magnetic Properties of Co-Mn Ferrite Nanoparticles Studied by Neutron Scattering |
15:20-15:35 |
Dhiman Kalita | Self-Trapped Excitons in Organic Lead Halide Perovskites |
15:35-15:40 | Dr. Rodolfo Reda Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
15:40-15:55 | Janet Eleojo AL-HASSAN | Exploring the Impact of Edge and Surface Sites on Functionalized Graphene-based Membrane in H2S Adsorption: A Computational Study |
15:55-16:10 | Jin Maeda | Improved Experimental Yield of Temperature-Cycle-Induced Deracemization (TCID) with Cooling and Crystal Washing: Application of TCID for the Industrial scale |
16:10-16:25 | Muhammad Asif Hossain | Investigating the crystallization process of medical bio-polymer Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) using experimental methods and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations |
IOCC 2024 Program (DAY2)
IOCC 2024 Day 2
Session 7. Crystalline Metals and Alloys
Session 2. Crystal Engineering
Date: 19th September 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
09:00-09:10 | Prof. Xuejun (James) Ren Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
09:10-09:35 | Prof. Xuejun (James) Ren Invited Speaker |
Integrated data-led modelling of complex materials at different scales: opportunities, challenges and missing linking |
09:35-09:50 | Jaime Lazaro Nebreda | Three-dimensional characterization of Fe-rich intermetallics in Al-Si-Mg (A6xxx) aluminium alloy DC cast billets with an increased scrap content by X-ray tomography |
9:50-10:05 | Mane Sahakyan | Optical and pressure-induced investigations of double perovskite Ba2TiMnO6 from the first principle. |
10:05-10:20 | Xiaoliang Qing | Data-led modelling and analysis of defects and doping in different carbides |
10:20-10:35 | JAYANT KUMAR SAHOO | Mineralogical Studies of Low-Grade Iron Ores from Daitari Iron Ore Deposit, Odisha, India |
10:35-12:00 | BREAK | |
12:00-12:10 |
Dr. David B. Cordes |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
12:10-12:35 |
Dr. Nikos Karayiannis |
Molecular Simulation as Tool to Study Crystallization |
12:35-12:50 | Okba Al Rahal | Structure of the Caffeine-Pyrogallol Complex: Revisiting a Pioneering Structural Analysis of a Model Pharmaceutical Cocrystal |
12:50-13:05 | Alexander P. Voronin | Polymorphism in riluzole salts and cocrystals with aromatic carboxylic acids |
13:05-13:20 | Dilyara Mingazhetdinova | Non-covalent structure-forming bonding of 2-aryhydrazone thiazolo[3,2-a]pyrimidines in the crystalline phase |
IOCC 2024 Program (DAY3)
IOCC 2024 Day 3
Session 3. Inorganic Crystalline Materials
Date: 20th September 2024 (Friday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
9:00-9:10 | Prof. Dr. Vladimir P. Fedin Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
9:10-9:35 | Dr. M. Ajmal Khan Invited Speaker |
AlGaN-based far-UVC LED for Medical and Agricultural Applications |
9:35-10:00 |
Prof. Dr. Danil N. Dybtsev |
Adsorption and separation of light hydrocarbons by a series of porous metal-organic frameworks |
10:00-10:15 | Driss AKHLIDEJ | Investigation of the structural, microstructural, optical and electrical properties of iron-doped barium titanate ceramics |
10:15-10:30 | Win Thi Yein | Interfacial Action of Co-Doped MoS2 Nanosheets on the Directional Piezoelectric Catalytic Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species |
10:30-10:45 | Veronika D. Grigorieva | Sodium polymolybdates grown by low-thermal-gradient Czochralski technique for scintillating applications |
10:45-11:00 | Julio Corredoira Vázquez | A trans-diacetate dysprosium complex with a flexible hexaazatetramine 18-membered macrocycle |
11:00-11:15 | Alice Leoncini | Developments, features and perspectives of crystal scintillators of the Cs2MCl6family (M = Hf or Zr) to search for rare processes |
11:15-11:30 | Ana Rovisco | Influence of the seed-layer material on the direct growth of zinc-tin oxide (ZTO) nanostructures |
11:30-11:45 | Ayodele Odularu | Bite angle assessment of coordination geometry of zinc(II) 2, 2'-bypiridine crystal |
Session 6. Materials for Energy Applications
Date: 20th September 2024 (Friday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
14:00-14:10 | Dr. Ioannis Spanopoulos Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
14:10-14:25 | Francesca Perra | Sorbents and catalysts based on mesostructured silica for pollutant removal and Carbon Capture and Utilization technologies |
14:25-14:40 | Fabio Manna | Optimizing the CO2 uptake performance of an anilato-based ultramicroporous 3D MOF through a New Synthetic Protocol |
14:40-14:55 | Chaitanya Hirenkumar Jani | Recovery of Precious Metals from the Spent Catalyst |
14:55-15:10 |
Fausto Secci |
Highly dispersed ultra-small NiO nanoparticles on mesostructured silica as efficient catalysts for CO2 methanation |
15:10-15:25 | Fatima BAILA | Recovery of mica minerals from granite waste for energy applications |
15:25-15:40 | Amretashis Sengupta | Lithium adsorption properties of two-dimensional chromium nitride |
Live Session Recordings
Abstract Book
Event Chair
I have been an associate professor at the University of Pisa since 2017. I began my academic career in the field of growth and spectroscopic characterization of rare-earth-doped crystalline insulating materials in the visible and near-infrared regions. Then, my research interests have expanded towards the mid-infrared and THz regions. Throughout my career, I have characterized and optimized many devices and materials for various applications such as photonics, scintillation, quantum information technologies, biomedicine, etc. Recently, I have been working on developing new spectroscopy and imaging methods in the THz region for monitoring plant health, fruit and food quality and I am also working on the development of integrated photonics circuits for quantum computing applications. As of 2024, in all these research areas, I have published more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, I hold two patents, and I am accredited with an h-index of 52 in Scopus and 50 in ISI WoS.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Chigrinov
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 322 journal papers, more than 677 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 38 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018 http://www.ee.ust.hk/ece.php/enews/detail/660. He is 2019 Distinguished Fellow of IETI (International Engineering and Technology Institute): http://www.ieti.net/news/detail.aspx?id=184 http://www.ieti.net/memberships/Fellows.aspx Since 2018, he works as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering in Foshan University, Foshan, China. 2020-2024 Vice President of Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Since 2021 distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Since March 2022, he is A Fellow of National Academy of Technology for his contributions to Information Electrical and Electronic Research: http://www.usnat.org/fellows.html
Prof. Dr. Hongbin Bei
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China
Dr. Bei currently is a professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests focus on alloy design and behavior, structural materials under extreme conditions, multiscale mechanical behaviors, physical metallurgy, metal and alloys. He has been published more than 200 in peer-reviewed journal and cited by more than 20000 times according to Google scholar. His publication can be found in https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nwGPFdgAAAAJ&hl=en
Prof. Dr. Ferdinando Costantino
University of Perugia, Italy
Ferdinando Costantino received the PhD in Chemistry from University of Perugia in 2005 and in 2006-2007 worked in Rennes as Post-Doc fellow. Then he moved to San Diego (CA) for a short term scholarship at UCSD. From 2010 to 2016 he was associate fellow of ICCOM-CNR institute in Florence. In 2015 he won the Nardelli prize from the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC) as young researcher working on crystallographic methods. He is actually associate professor of inorganic chemistry and material sciences at the University of Perugia. He is member of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC). His scientific interests are focused on the synthesis and characterization of hybrid materials based on layered materials and porous compounds based on metal phosphonates and MOFs for gas adsorption, catalysis and proton conductivity. Co-author of 110 research papers in international journals (h-index = 34) and three book chapters and of many communications at national and international congresses.
Prof. Dr. Vladimir P. Fedin
Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Vladimir P. Fedin was born in Penza (USSR) in 1954 and received his M.Sc. (1976) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees from Moscow State University (under supervision of academician A.N. Nesmeyanov). As a postdoc, he worked in Germany (Prof. Dr. A. Müller, AvH Fellowship), UK (Prof. A.G. Sykes, RS Kapitza Fellowship), and Japan (Prof. T. Saito, JSPS). Visiting professor at the universities of Bielefeld, Regensburg, Karlsruhe, Versailles, La Laguna, Warsaw. In 1981 he joined the Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2005 to 2019, he served as Director of this institute. From 2019 to the present, he heads the Department of chemistry of coordination, cluster and supramolecular compounds of this institute. Since 2005, he has also been the head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Novosibirsk State University. His research interests include the chemistry of chalcogenide clusters, polyoxometalates, supramolecular chemistry of cucurbit[n]urils, and, in recent years, MOF-based materials for separation, catalysis, proton conductivity and sensing. In 2011, he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Dr. Vladimir P. Fedin has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers that have been cited over 14,000 times, H-index = 53.
Dr. Ioannis Spanopoulos
Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Ioannis earned his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry from the University of Crete, where he worked on the development of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for gas storage and separation applications. Following this, he joined the research group of Prof. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis at Northwestern University as a post-doctoral fellow, developing perovskite semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. In 2021, he started his independent career at the University of South Florida as an Assistant Professor at the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering. He received the 2020 IIN Outstanding Researcher award from the International Institute for Nanotechnology, the 2022 ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Research award, and he is a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). Research at the Spanopoulos Group focuses on utilizing molecular and crystal engineering to design and synthesize next-generation, multi-functional materials for energy and environmental-related applications.
Prof. Xuejun (James) Ren
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Xuejun (James) Ren is a Professor of Engineering and Director of at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He graduated from Yanshan University (China) with a BEng (H.) degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 1991 and obtained his MSc-PhD degree in Advanced Manufacturing and Design (University of Hull, UK) in 2000. He has previously worked at Uni. of Exeter, Loughborough Uni., Serco Assurance/AMEC. His current research interests and activities are in Materials Characterization, Processing, Modelling and Data-led New Materials Development. He has authored/co-authored over 100 SCI journal papers, supervised 15 PhD students. He is PI/coordinator for several EU projects on data-led materials development and manufacturing.
Dr. David B. Cordes
EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK
David received his PhD from the University of Otago in 2006, having worked on the structural characterisation of coordination polymers. He started postdoctoral work in 2007 at The University of Alabama, followed by positions at Imperial College London, and the University of St Andrews. These positions included work on a wide variety of projects, including ionic liquid, polyhedral oligosilsesquioxanes and supramolecular chemistry, but all had an underlying link to single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Following this, in 2012 he moved to Texas Tech University to take up a position running the X-ray diffraction lab in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, before returning to the School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews in 2013 to take up a position as X-Ray Crystallographer. Since 2022 he has run the X-ray Crystallography Service.
Dr. Rodolfo Reda
Department of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy
https://phd.uniroma1.it/web/RODOLFO-REDA_nP1701316_.aspx
Event Committee
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II
S7. Materials for Energy Applications
S3. Crystal Engineering
Faculty of Chemistry, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
S3. Crystal Engineering
S6. Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials & S7. Materials for Energy Applications
Institute of Physics, Lodz University of Technology, Wolczanska, Lodz, Poland
S4. Inorganic Crystalline Materials
Institute for Optoelectronic Systems and Microtechnology (ISOM) and Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales (ETSII), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
S1. Liquid Crystals & S3. Crystal Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK
S3. Crystal Engineering
European Space Research and Technology Centre, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, The Netherlands
S6. Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials
Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II, piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
S8. Crystalline Metals and Alloys
S3. Crystal Engineering & S4. Inorganic Crystalline Materials
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
S4. Inorganic Crystalline Materials
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M139PL, UK
S1. Liquid Crystals
Department of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Silesian University of Technology, Konarskiego St. 18a, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
S7. Materials for Energy Applications
Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry, Lodz
University of Technology, Lodz, Poland
S6. Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials
Department of Physics and Quantum Photonic Science Research Center, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
S6. Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials & S8. Crystalline Metals and Alloys
Coordination and Supramolecular Chemistry Group (Suprametal), Institute of Materials (iMATUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
S4. Inorganic Crystalline Materials
Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council-CNR, Bari, Italy
S5. Organic Crystalline Materials
Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy
S7. Materials for Energy Applications
Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050, USA
S1. Liquid Crystals
Institute of Materials Science, Technical University Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany
S8. Crystalline Metals and Alloys
Department of Technologies and Equipment for Materials
Processing Faculty of Materials Science & Engineering "Gheorghe Asachi"
Technical University of Iasi
S1. Liquid Crystals & S7. Materials for Energy Applications
Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology (BCAST), Brunel University London, Uxbridge, London, UK
S8. Crystalline Metals and Alloys
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroska 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
S1. Liquid Crystals
Dipartimento SIMAU, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
S1. Liquid Crystals
CanmetMATERIALS, 183 Longwood Road South, Hamilton, ON, L8P 0A5, Canada
S8. Crystalline Metals and Alloys
ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia
S7. Materials for Energy Applications
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 247, Light Engineering, Stony Brook University
S4. Organic Crystalline Materials
Invited Speakers
AlGaN-based far-UVC LED for Medical and Agricultural Applications
S4. Inorganic Crystalline Materials
Liquid Crystal Photoalignment by Azodye Nanolalayers: Physics and Applications
S1. Liquid Crystals
Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Adsorption and separation of light hydrocarbons by a series of porous metal-organic frameworks
S4. Inorganic Crystalline Materials
Giant Dielectric Permittivity in the Ferroelectric Nematics
S1. Liquid Crystals
University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Materials Science
Dynamics and Luminescent Properties in Nanoporous Crystalline Architectures
S6. Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials
Institute for Optoelectronic Systems and Microtechnology (ISOM) and Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales (ETSII), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
Molecular Simulation as Tool to Study Crystallization
S2. Crystal Engineering
S7. Crystalline Metals and Alloys
Instructions for Authors
Deadline for abstract submission: 8 May 2024 10 June 2024.
Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 25 June 2024 8 July 2024 22 July 2024. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster in a separate email.
Abstract Submission
1. Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system. No physical submission is necessary.
2. The abstract should include an introduction, methods, results, and conclusion sections, and be about 200–300 words in length.
3. If you wish to publish a proceedings paper or a research article in the journal, please refer to the “Publication Opportunities” Section.
4. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
5. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
6. All abstracts accepted for presentation will be collected in a book of abstracts, which will be published on the website after the conference.
7. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted.
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 minutes. We recommend a 12-minute presentation, leaving about 3 minutes for a Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
Poster Gallery
- Should include the title, authors, contact details, and main research findings, as well as tables, figures, and graphs where necessary.
- File format: PDF (.pdf).
- Size in pixel: 1,080 width x 1,536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38.1 width x 54.2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16. Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
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Publication Opportunities
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a research article to the Special Issue, published in Crystals journal (ISSN: 2073-4352, Impact Factor: 2.4), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Details of the special issue will be announced here later. Please note that no other discounts are applicable. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
- Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IOCC 2024 in Chemistry Proceedings journal (ISSN: 2673-4583) if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
- Title.
- Full author names.
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
- Abstract.
- Keywords.
- Introduction.
- Methods.
- Results and Discussion.
- Conclusions.
- Acknowledgements.
- References.
Registration
Registration for IOCC 2024 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance at all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 16 September 2024.
List of accepted submissions (108)
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Hydrogen bond is the most abundant noncovalent interaction of water molecules. Previous studies have shown that the strength of the water–water hydrogen bond (-5.0 kcal/mol) increases if one of the water molecules coordinates to transition metal (-9.7 kcal/mol). One of the indicators of this strengthening is the shortening of H∙∙∙O hydrogen bond distances in the crystal structures deposited in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). To study how the coordination of both water molecules influences their hydrogen bonds, we used the ConQuest program to screen high-quality crystal structures deposited in the CSD. The contacts between two aqua ligands in these crystal structures were accepted as hydrogen bonds if the O∙∙∙O distance was shorter than 4.0 Å and the O-H∙∙∙O angle was bigger than 110°. The energies of hydrogen bonds were calculated using the B97D/def2-TZVP level of theory. The majority of the obtained hydrogen bonds have H∙∙∙O distances between 1.8 Å and 2.0 Å, which is longer than hydrogen bonds between coordinated and free water (1.6 – 1.8 Å). Although this might point towards the weakening of hydrogen bonds by the coordination of both water molecules, the DFT calculations show that the energy of a single hydrogen bond between aqua ligands reaches -11.0 kcal/mol, most likely due to increased dispersion effects. We found that the observed increase in the lengths of hydrogen bonds between aqua ligands is induced by the size of aqua complexes and their tendency to form multiple simultaneous hydrogen bonds. Our DFT calculations show that the supramolecular structures with multiple hydrogen bonds between aqua ligands reach an interaction energy of ‑70.0 kcal/mol. This study implies that the coordination of both water molecules further increases the strength of their hydrogen bonds and shows that hydrogen bonds between aqua ligands are significant contributors to the stability of supramolecular systems of metal complexes. |
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sciforum-094314 | C-H/O interactions of aromatic ligands in organometallic compounds—crystallographic and density functional study | , |
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C-H/O interactions are among the most abundant weak hydrogen bonds due to the omnipresence of C-H groups and oxygen atoms. Previous studies have shown that coordination with metals can cause the strengthening of noncovalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonds, stacking interactions, cation–π, and anion–π interactions. In this work, we studied the influence of transition metal coordination on C-H/O interactions of aromatic ligands in organometallic complexes. Crystal structures of high quality, deposited in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD, version 5.43, November 2022), were studied using the ConQuest program (version 2022.3.0) to find C-H/O interactions between the η6-coordinated benzene and the oxygen atom of a Z1-O-Z2 fragment, where Z1 or Z2 could be any atom. The contact was accepted as a C-H/O interaction if the O∙∙∙H distance was shorter than 2.9 Å and the C-H∙∙∙O angle was bigger than 110°. The density functional theory was employed to calculate the energies of C-H/O interactions. Our CSD search resulted in 152 C-H/O interactions of coordinated benzene, mostly in organometallic half-sandwich compounds. The analysis of geometrical parameters shows that preferred O∙∙∙H distances in these interactions are between 2.3 Å and 2.5 Å. These O∙∙∙H distances are shorter for coordinated than uncoordinated aromatic rings, indicating that coordinated aromatic rings form stronger C-H/O hydrogen bonds than uncoordinated ones. These findings are confirmed by our preliminary B3LYP-D3/aug-cc-pVDZ calculations, which showed that in the organometallic half-sandwich model system Cr(C6H6)(CO)3∙∙∙H2O the C-H/O interaction reaches the energy of -3.88 kcal/mol, which is considerably stronger than the C-H/O interaction between (uncoordinated) benzene and water (-1.64 kcal/mol). Our joint crystallographic and computational study points towards the enhanced ability of coordinated aromatic rings to form substantial C-H/O interactions. This study provides further insights into the strengthening of noncovalent interactions via transition metal coordination. |
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sciforum-096919 | Study of synthesized molecular chiral lactam structures for volatile compound profile enrichment using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) technique | , |
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In a study of the chiral enantiomer structure of cyclic trilactams possessing C3 symmetry, the dimer structure was established through the formation of three NH···O type complementary H-bonds at three amides which were applied as agents for volatile compound profile extraction in a sample via the liquid phase extraction technique. The extraction efficiency of cyclic trilactam materials for analytes found in perfume samples was assessed using HS-SPME-GC-MS. The experimental arrangement of perfume solution was combined with the materials in EtOH solvent in an open vial, while the perfume in EtOH (without the materials) served as the control. Following overnight evaporation at room temperature, the remaining liquid was collected for HS-SPME-GC-MS analysis. Extraction took place overnight to explore the materials' extraction efficiency and facilitate re-crystallization. The materials underwent re-crystallization, with the collected crystals revealing a similar shape to the observed dimers. This suggests a robust hydrogen bonding interaction within the dimer and the volatile compounds interacting. A list of identified compounds during extraction was compiled for each material and the control. The enrichment peak areas in the chromatogram results were determined as the analyte peak area in the sample containing the materials to the area of the same analyte in the control. This indicated the extraction performance of volatile analytes in the sample containing the materials compared with the control sample, such as Linalylformate (5.1±0.015)×107, Citronellol (5.1±4.2)×106, Carvone (4.2±3.5)×105, Linalylacetate (2.5±2.2)×107 and α-Terpinylacetate (2.3±1.7)×105 of the main potential compounds. Higher enrichment signifies stronger interactions between the analytes and these materials. The solubility between the compounds in less polar solvents can be attributed to their structural features and the nature of the solvent. Specifically, the solubility of each compound is influenced by factors such as polarity, hydrogen bonding capability, and the molecular size and shape of the compounds can influence their interactions with the solvent molecules, further impacting solubility differences between compounds in less polar solvents. |
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Sorbents and catalysts based on mesostructured silica for pollutant removal and Carbon Capture and Utilization technologies
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In recent years, concerns about heavy metal pollution and rising CO2 levels contributing to global warming have intensified. This study focuses on synthesizing and functionalizing mesostructured silicas (MCM-41, MCM-48) to develop amine–silica sorbents for potential applications in removing Cd2+ from aqueous solutions and in Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) technologies. Due to their ordered mesoporous structure, nitrogen's lone pairs donating to Cd2+, and the high affinity of amines for CO2, amine–silica sorbents are suitable for these applications. Additionally, mesostructured silica-based composites were developed by impregnating MCM-41 with copper, zinc, and zirconium oxidic phases (CZZ) for potential use in the catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol. |
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sciforum-093888 | Influence of the seed-layer material on the direct growth of zinc-tin oxide (ZTO) nanostructures | , , , , , |
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Recently, metal oxide nanostructures have seen significant advancements in synthesis and device integration. Considering the sustainability of materials and processes, as well as multifunctionality, zinc-tin oxide nanostructures are among the most promising oxide nanostructures being researched. Their ternary oxide nature allows for impressive multifunctionality, with applications including catalysis, electronics, sensors, and energy harvesting. To synthesize these materials, the use of seed layers can be beneficial since it can influence the growth of nanostructures and is advantageous for applications where nanostructures on film are desired, such as photocatalysis and sensors. In this work, several seed layers (namely Cu, stainless steel, Cr, Ni, etc.) were tested for the synthesis of ZTO nanostructures. It was generally observed that the structures grown on the seed layers differed from those obtained with the seed-layer-free hydrothermal method (under similar synthesis conditions [1-3]), demonstrating the effectiveness of seed layers in influencing growth. Various types of structures were obtained, such as ZnSnO3 nanowires and Zn2SnO4 nanoparticles, octahedrons, and nanowires. The results suggest a correlation between the phase of the employed seed layer and the resultant phase of the nanostructures. Furthermore, it was generally seen that while shorter times favored the production of nanostructures, longer times resulted in thin films with a nanostructured surface when employing the seed layers [4]. This emphasizes the influence of seed layers on nanostructure growth, not only by inducing the phase but also by accelerating the growth process. References:
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