52nd Meeting of the Italian Crystallographic Association
8-11 September 2026, Bari
Scientific program: Friday 11 September
The 52nd AIC meeting offers a rich scientific program, including five plenary lectures, ten microsimposia, and a poster session.
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| 9:00 – 9:45 | Plenary Lecture 5 – Chair: Rita Berisio Aula Magna Andrea Musacchio Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany Cell division: a structural perspective | |
| 9:45 – 10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 10:15 – 12:05 | MS9 – Advanced materials for Sustainable Energy Room A Chairs: Riccardo Fantini, Serena Chiara Tarantino | MS10 – Sharing and disseminating Crystallography Room D Chairs: Annalisa Guerri, Marta Morana |
| 10:15 – 10:40 | Elisa Borfecchia (Invited) University of Turin, Italy Deciphering Selective Oxidation Chemistry in Copper-Based Porous Catalysts through X-ray Spectroscopy: From Zeolites to MOFs | Consiglia Tedesco (Invited) University of Salerno, Italy STEAM in action: from educational robotics to materials science |
| 10:40 – 11:05 | Daniele Callegari (Invited) University of Pavia, Italy Advanced X-ray characterization into Next-Generation Energy Materials: Tracking Structural Evolution in Lithium and Sodium-Ion Cathodes | Michele Zema (Invited) University of Bari, Italy Crystallography as a Vehicle for Stimulating Research and Education on a Global Scale |
| 11:05 – 11:20 | Maria Chiara di Gregorio Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Engineering metal-organic frameworks for highly nonlinear photonics | Carlotta Giacobbe Thermo Fisher Scientific, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland Crystallography behind the button: dissemination, automation and decision-making in industrial environments |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | Luciano Marchiò University of Parma, Italy Selective Complex Dissociation of REEs using Photoswitchable Ligands | Martina Lippi University of Florence, Italy Beyond the Invisible: Stories, Science, and Careers in Crystallography |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Marzia Guerrini University of Milan, Italy Exploring Metal Exsolution in Titanate-Based Perovskites | Andrea Ienco CNR-ICCOM, Florence, Italy Words of Crystallography in the Italian Legal Language: A Laboratory for High School Students |
| 11:50 – 12:05 | Andrea Vitale University of Bologna, Italy Reordering Frustration in Enantiomer-Enriched Solid Solutions of Ionic Plastic Crystals for Proton-Conducting Materials Design | Alessia Bacchi University of Parma, Italy VISION3D: Augmented and Virtual Reality approach for engaging the public in structural science |
| 12:05 – 12:35 | Nardelli Prize Elena Simone Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy Experimental and multi-scale modelling techniques to engineer crystalline formulations for pharmaceutical and food applications | |
| 12:20 – 13:00 | Conclusions Aula Magna | |