Focus Area 1 (SIG 1)

• SAXS in structural biology
• Development of new types of sample preparation (both XFEL & synchrotrons)
• Data collection and processing software (XFELS & synchrotrons)
• New developments in phasing and refinement
• Structural information in drug design
• Molecular machines and big complexes
• Protein & glycobiology structure determination
• Membranes and membrane interacting proteins
• Enzyme reactions and dynamics in crystals
• H-bonding & weak interactions in crystals: neutrons and X-rays
• Hybrid approaches and validation (X-ray and electron microscopy)
• Biophysical characterization and crystallization
• Hot structures in biology

Focus Area 2 (SIG 5, 11, 12)

• Biomineralogical crystallography and bioinspired inorganic materials
• Minerals and materials
• Structure-property relationships in high pressure crystallography
• Crystal chemistry of C-bearing materials and minerals at extreme conditions
• Structural studies of meteoritic, extra-terrestrial, and planetary materials
• Solid state oxygen fuel cell, hydrogen storage & battery materials
• Materials for energy conversion and harvesting
• Structural disorder and materials’ properties at ambient and non-ambient conditions

Focus Area 3 (SIG 2, 3, 4)

• Beyond multipolar refinement
• Charge and spin density of materials at extreme conditions
• Inorganic and metal-organic magnetic structures
• Quasicrystal and approximant: structure and properties
• Incommensurate modulated and composite phases
• Dynamical refinement of electron diffraction data
• New approaches in electron crystallography

Focus Area 4 (SIG 7, 13)

• Molecular interactions in crystal packing and molecular assemblies
• Hydrogen bonding from theory to applications
• Crystal energy landscapes: computation and uses
• Polymorphs, cocrystals, solvates, salts: a jungle for scientists and industries
• Hot structures of small molecules
• Molecular recognition, supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering
• Simulation of dynamics in molecular compounds
• Crystallography in solid state reactions and catalysis
• Molecular compounds and MOFs at ambient conditions and under high pressure
• Nanomaterials & graphene

Focus Area 5 (SIG 6, 8, 9)

• X-Ray diffraction on the µs to ps time scale
• New detectors for high energy x-ray applications
• The use of X-ray, electron and neutron scattering in nanoscience
• Advances in neutron scattering under non-ambient conditions
• Combining x-ray diffraction and other techniques for in situ and operando studies
• Total scattering: pdf analysis and diffuse scattering in X-Ray, neutron and electron diffraction
• Measuring data quality
• Computational tools for theoretical chemistry in crystallography

General Microsymposia

• Teaching & Education
• Crystallography in art and cultural heritage
• How to…: crystallization for small and large molecules
• History of ECA, history of crystallography: contributions to and of crystallography