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Winners of the IUCr Crystal growing competition 2018 announced

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2018 edition of the IUCr worldwide crystal growing competition!



All entries have been evaluated by an international judging panel based on creativity, aesthetic value, description of the working plan and experimental work, clarity of explanations, scientific background and safety.



Gold, silver and bronze medals were assigned to each of the three categories based on the age of participants.



Now enjoy watching the videos!



Posted 25 Jan 2019

Winners of the IUCr Crystal growing competition 2017 announced

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2017 edition of the IUCr worldwide crystal growing competition!



All entries have been evaluated by an international judging panel based on creativity, aesthetic value, description of the working plan and experimental work, clarity of explanations, scientific background and safety.



Gold, silver and bronze medals were assigned to each of the three categories based on the age of participants.



Now enjoy watching the videos!



Posted 31 Jan 2018

Winners of the IUCr Crystal growing competition 2016 announced

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2016 edition of the IUCr worldwide crystal growing competition!



All entries have been evaluated by an international judging panel based on creativity, aesthetic value, description of the working plan and experimental work, clarity of explanations, scientific background and safety.



Gold, silver and bronze medals were assigned to each of the three categories based on the age of participants.



Now enjoy watching the videos!



Posted 01 Feb 2017

OpenLab Cameroon @PCCr1

To coincide with the 1st Panafrican Conference on Crystallography (PCCr1), a Bruker portable X2S single-crystal diffractometer will be made available at the University of Dschang. During the days of the conference, two Bruker delegates, Eric Hovestreydt and Loïc Le Dréau, will assist for installation, demonstration and data collections and analyses. Support will be given by IUCr delegates, Claude Lecomte and Michele Zema and local organizer Patrick Kenfack.

The Bruker system is intended to remain at the University of Dschang for a period of few months after the PCCr1 conference, allowing local researchers to conduct in-house XRD single-crystal measurements. During these period, dedicated courses will be organized locally to train young students.



Posted 28 Sep 2016

2016 IUCr Crystal-growing competition now open

The 2016 edition of the IUCr Crystal growing competition is now open! All schoolchildren are invited to submit their videos and convey their experience of growing crystals. This initiative was originally launched in 2014 as part of the celebrations for the International Year of Crystallography and has now reached its third edition.

Learn with Joanna how to grow fantastic crystals in this video by Sabine Allaeys and watch the winning videos of previous editions here.



Posted 20 Apr 2016

Winners of the IUCr Crystal growing competition 2015 announced

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2015 edition of the IUCr worldwide crystal growing competition!

All entries have been evaluated by an international judging panel based on creativity, aesthetic value, description of the working plan and experimental work, clarity of explanations and scientific background.

Gold, silver and bronze medals were assigned to each of the three categories based on the age of participants.

Now enjoy watching the videos!



Posted 12 Feb 2016

Two other successful OpenLabs archived

From Africa to Latin America, the IUCr-UNESCO OpenLab initiative is offering high-quality educational opportunities to more and more young researchers. Last September 2015, two OpenLabs, equally successful, were held in Kenya (with CCDC) and Mexico (with PANalytical). Both events were attended by over 80 students from the hosting country as well as from neighbouring countries, in the spirit of promoting intra-regional cooperation.



Read the reports by Juliette Pradon and Patricia Gitari about the IUCr-UNESCO-CCDC OpenLab Kenya and by Luis Miguel Martinez about the IUCr-UNESCO-PANalytical OpenLab Mexico 2.



Photo galleries are available on facebook.



Posted 16 Oct 2015

Exhibition Cristales featured on National Geographic

Read the article on National Geographic España magazine about the exhibition Cristales by Juanma Garcia Ruiz.



"We want to convey not only the beauty of crystals but also explain how they have contributed to the welfare of society, especially in biomedicine and in the synthesis of new materials" explains Juanma to the readers of National Geographic.



A full article describing the concept and content of the exhibition which was launched on the occasion of the International Year of Crystallography, has been recently published on the Journal of Applied Crystallography.