The Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship
Honoring Ludo Frevel
About Ludo Frevel
A gentleman and scientist, Ludo joined The Dow Chemical Company Spectroscopy Laboratory in 1936 and until retirement, was one of Dow’s top scientists. In fact, he was the first Dow scientist to have the title ‘Research Specialist’. He held 60 patents and co-authored 446 technical papers, publishing his most recent paper at age 95. Ludo was co-author with Hanawalt and Rinn on the famous 1938 paper, “Chemical Analysis by X-ray Diffraction”, was a world expert in catalysis, and was known for several innovations in the field of powder diffraction. He also wrote some of the first computer automated material identification software utilizing X-ray powder diffraction data. Ludo served as ICDD Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1990-1992.
Ludo Frevel Scholarship
The science of crystallography has played a key role in the development of X-ray diffraction, electron diffraction, and neutron diffraction for the elucidation of the atomic structure of matter.
Crystallography is an interdisciplinary branch of science taught in departments of physics, chemistry, geology, molecular biology, metallurgy, and material science. To encourage promising graduate students to pursue crystallographically oriented research, the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) has established a Crystallography Scholarship Fund, known as the Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Fund. While the (IUCr) Ewald Prize is awarded every three years to an internationally recognized crystallographer, little effort has been made by science departments to cultivate aspiring crystallographers. Convinced of the beneficial, scientific impact of the proposed scholarships for crystallographically oriented research, the ICDD has solicited funds from private and industrial sectors to support this program.
The ICDD has awarded 239 scholarships to aspiring crystallographers since 1991, totaling $574,750.
The 2025 Scholarship awards are $2,500 each
and include a one-year subscription to the PDF-5+ 2025 database.
Ludo Frevel Scholarship
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A few words regarding the Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship from the chairperson of the Scholarship committee:
The Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship is:
- an award to support the education and research program of promising graduate students in crystallography-related fields.
The Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship is NOT:
- a payment for work or service performed for the ICDD
- a grant given in expectation of performing ICDD-reviewed research
- a grant-in-aid
All applications are to be submitted via the ICDD website. Please follow the instructions below. The preferred method of application is via the web; however, if you require an alternate method, please contact Elizabeth Dempsey – Email: dempsey@icdd.com or Tel: 610-325-9814.
The online application will request you to upload the following information in the form of two separate PDF documents. The online application will also request that you provide the contact information for your primary research advisor. An email will be sent to this advisor seeking a one-page letter of recommendation on your behalf. Please note the recommendation letter is due on or before the deadline of 10 October 2024.
Please prepare the following in advance of applying online.
- Font Size: 12 point; Margin: no smaller than 3/4 inch.
- A description of the candidate’s proposed research (limit 2 pages) including:
- Purpose and rationale for the research
- Proposed methodology to be used in the study
- References and/or descriptions of the scientific background for the proposed research
- A curriculum vitae (limit 2 pages) including:
- Educational preparation (institutions, dates, degrees obtained and in progress, and particularly pertinent coursework)
- Awards, honors received
- Any research publications and/or presentations given
- Any work experience (dates, employers, positions)
- Professional activities, memberships
The applicant should be a graduate student enrolled in a graduate degree program during the 2025 calendar year, with a major interest in the following:
- crystallography e.g. crystal structure analysis
- crystal morphology
- modulated structures
- correlation of atomic structure with physical properties
- systematic classification of crystal structures
- phase identification
- materials characterization
Students with a graduation date prior to 1 July 2025 are NOT eligible for the 2025 scholarship award.
The term of the scholarship is one year. The recipient may make an application for one renewal at the end of the first year. Because a limited number of scholarships are awarded, renewal applications will be considered on a competitive basis in conjunction with all applications that have been submitted up to the closing date.
The amount of available funding limits the number of scholarships that can be granted in any given year. A committee consisting of the ICDD Scholarship Committee Chairman, the ICDD Chairman, the Chairman of the ICDD Education Subcommittee, the ICDD Corporate Secretary and individuals without conflict of interest administer the awarding of the scholarships. One or more accredited professors (with no conflicts of interest) may be invited to assist in the selection of successful candidates. The selection committee will evaluate the applications received to determine which are most deserving of a scholarship. These evaluations consider both the proposal (impact, innovativeness, originality, efficacy of approach, and relationship to crystallography) and the student (recommendation letter, educational track record, prior work and/or research, honors, awards, and professional activities) in determining which applicants will receive the award.
The Scholarship Committee does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, or religion. All applications will be held to the same standard and scholarships will be given to the top applicants.
There is a limitation of one award per educational institution. In the event that two or more candidates from one institution are considered to be among the top applicants, only one will be given an award. We invite applications from all areas of the world. Applicants from institutions with developing crystallography programs are encouraged to apply.
Students with a graduation date prior to 1 July 2025 are NOT eligible for the 2025 scholarship award.
A portion of the award may be applied to registration fees and travel costs to attend accredited scientific meetings related to crystallography, where the recipient is presenting results of work performed as part of his or her graduate studies.
There is a limitation of one award per educational institution. In the event that two or more candidates from one institution are considered to be among the top applicants, only one will be given an award.
Why Donate
The science of crystallography has played a key role in the development of X-ray diffraction, electron diffraction and neutron diffraction for the elucidation of the atomic structure of matter. Your donation will go directly to the future of this field.
- 100% of all donations go to scholarships
- Over 20 years of proven success in supporting students who are shaping our future
- All donations are tax-deductible per IRS code
The International Centre for Diffraction Data (JCPDS-ICDD) is a nonprofit, scientific organization, which is exempt from tax as a public charity under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and contributions to which are deductible under section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code, subject to the limitations contained in the Internal Revenue Code, Sections 2055, 2106, and 2522.
or please send a check for any amount made out to “Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Fund”:
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Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Recipients
Madeleine Gaidimas
Northwestern University, USA
Gary George III
University of Missouri, USA
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Marcos Imer
Wayne State University, USA
“Exploiting Crystal-Chemistry to Guide the Search for High-Temperature Phosphors”
Vidya Singh
New York University, USA
“Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in the Interior Channels of a Three-Dimensional DNA Lattice”
Jogirdas Vainauskas
McGill University, Canada / University of Birmingham, UK
“Halogen Bonding to Aromatic Carbon: Designing Advanced Materials Using Simple, Carbon-Based Building Blocks”
Yizhi Xu
University of Warsaw, Poland
“Computational Aided Design of Metal-Organic Frameworks”
Alvin Chang
Oregon State University, USA
“Surface Restructuring and Stability of Electrocatalysts Studied by Surface X-ray Diffraction”
Long Chen
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
“Designing Novel Quantum Materials Based on Low Dimensional Structure Motifs”
Dawid Drozdowski
Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
“Synthesis and Physicochemical Characterization of Methylhydrazinium Lead Halide Perovskites with Tunable Structural and Optoelectrical Properties”
Robert Alex Mayo
Dalhousie University, Canada
“Constrained Crystal Structure Prediction”
Ana Murrieta
Tecnológico de Monterrey, México
“Development of Nanoparticle-Based Theragnostic Agents with Inherent Anti-Obesity Activity”
Fanrui Sha
Northwestern University, USA
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Monu Joy
Clarkson University, USA
“Structural Investigation of Metal-Organic Frameworks as Platforms for the Controlled Nanostructuring of Molecular Magnets: A crystallographic perspective”
Yuanwei Li
Northwestern University, USA
“Open Channel Colloidal Crystals”
Mengtan Liu
Harvard University, USA
“Design of Meltable and Glass-Forming Metal–Organic Frameworks via Crystal Engineering”
Egor Marin
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
“Serial Femtosecond Crystallography of Lipid G-Protein Coupled Receptors”
Ana Murrieta
Tecnológico de Monterrey, México
“Cation Distribution In ZnFe2O4 Spinels: Synthesis, Characterization, and Structural Determination”
Deepankar Sri Gyan
University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
“Time-Resolved Free-Electron-Laser
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Jun Deng
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People’s Republic of China
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Navpreet Kaur
University of Minnesota, USA
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Loi Nguyen
Princeton University, USA
“Synchrotron and Neutron Diffraction Study on the Anomalous Magnetism and Octahedral Tilting in CaRuO3 and Na0.5La0.5RuO3 at Low Temperatures”
Jian Peng
University of Wollongong, Australia
“In situ Synchrotron Powder X-ray Diffraction Study on the Structural Evolution of High-Entropy Prussian Blue Analogs as Cathode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries”
Krishnakanth Sada
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India
“Structural Diversity of A2M3O7 Class of Layered Oxide Insertion Materials: Versatile Battery Cathodes”
Peter Winegar
Northwestern University, USA
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Kurtis Carsch
Harvard University, USA
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Xu Chen
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People’s Republic of China
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Jean-Louis Do
Concordia University, Canada
“Mechanochemical Synthesis of Novel Salicylic Acid-Based Cages for Pharmaceutical, Energy, and Catalytic Applications”
Theodosios Famprikis
Justus-Liebig Universitaet, Germany
“Attacking the Challenging Crystallography of Plastic-Crystalline Ion Conductors for Solid-State Batteries”
William Figg
University of Oxford, UK
“PHD2 Time-Resolved Crystallography”
Xin Gui
Louisiana State University, USA
“Manipulation of Superconducting Transition Temperature by Tuning Electronic Structure in Layered Ta2Se System with Doping”
Sikhumbuzo Masina
School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
“Superionic Conductors for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Probing the Local and Average Structure of the Enigmatic Bismuth Oxide and Its Chemical Derivatives”
Maxim Zakharkin
Moscow State University, Skoltech, Russia
“Evolution of Phase Transformation Behavior in the NASICON-type Na3+xMnxV2-x(PO4)3 (0≤x≤1) Cathodes for Na-ion Batteries”
Alexander Baker
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Rui Feng
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee USA
“In-Situ Neutron Study of the Atomic Structure and High-Temperature Deformation Behavior of Lightweight High-Entropy Alloys”
Ritambhara Gond
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalor, India
“Unraveling the Structure-Property Correlation in Pyrophosphate Class of Sodium Battery Materials Synergizing Diffraction and Microscopy Tools”
Shiyun Jin
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin USA
“Investigations on the Al-Si Ordering and Intimate Intergrowths in Plagioclase Feldspars”
Miriding Mutailipu
Chinese Academy of Science, Urumqi, China
“Structural Diversity of Metal Borates, Borates-Based Nonlinear Optical Materials”
Alexios Vicatos
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
“Supramolecular Derivatisation of Pharmaceutically Relevant Compounds via Co-Crystallization and Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexation”
Ghada Ayoub
McGill University, Quebec, Canada
“Mechanochemistry vs. Solution Growth: Validating the Differences between Nominally Identical Forms of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) Prepared by Different Methods”
Juan Chamorro
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
“Spinel Based Three Dimensional Topological Paramagnets by Design”
Samantha Clarke
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
“Magneto-Structural Studies of Novel Magnetic Materials at High Pressure”
Analio Dugarte Dugarte
Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
“The Incommensurate Modulated Structures of Several Metal Derivatives of Valproic Acid, an API used in the Treatment of Epilepsy and Bipolar Disorder”
Jesse Hauser
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA
“Electrochemical Synthesis of Novel Metal Organic Framework Thin Films on Transparent Conductive Substrates”
David Kok
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“Field Assisted Sintering of Multiphase Ceramic Composites”
Inês Martins
Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
“Structural Study of New Multicomponent Crystal Forms of Neuroleptic Drugs using NMR Crystallography as a Synergistic Tool”
Elahe Moazzen
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
“Lattice Templating and Galvanic Coupling Effects on the Electrochemical Performance of Core/Shell Battery Materials”
Maurice Payne
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
“Elucidation of Unique Thermal Behavior in a Metal-Organic Nanotube”
Yu-Tsun Shao
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
“Determination of Local Symmetry and Polarization in Ferroelectric Perovskites”
Ivana Brekalo
Georgetown University, Arlington, Virginia, USA
“Solid State Synthesis and Templation of Metal Organic Frameworks”
Haoyan Diao
University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
“In-Situ Neutron Studies of the Atomic Distributions and Dislocation Evolutions in the Alcocrfeni High-Entropy Alloy System”
Debasmita Dwibedi
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
“Synergetic Approaches Using Diffraction Tools in Probing the Structure-Property Correlation in Novel Sodium Battery Materials”
Stanislav Fedotov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
“Interrelation Between Crystal Structure and Electrochemical Properties in Cathode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries”
Igor Huskic
McGill University, Quebec, Canada
“Real-Time Monitoring of Solid-State Reactions Using X-ray Powder Diffraction”
Kipil Lim
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
“Study of the Battery Materials Through Operando X-ray Analysis”
Annalise Maughan
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
“Organic-Inorganic Coupling and Disorder in Hybrid Perovskite Halide Semiconductors”
Christopher Mizzi
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
“The Role of Octahedral Rotations and Distortions in Flexoelectric Phenomena”
Patrick Tung
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
“Diffuse Scattering: The Role of Local Disorder in Environmentally-Friendly Piezoelectric Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3– x%BaTiO3“
Yujun Xie
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
“Subcritical Nuclei-Coupled Crystal Growth in Metallic Glasses”
Anna Gres
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA
“Structural Basis of Stability of the Mature HIV-1 Capsid Core”
Seung Jun Hwang
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
“Photocrystallographic Observation of M–Cl Bond Activation and Cl–Cl Bond Formation of Fe(III) Complexes in the Various Geometries”
Bandi Mallesham
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India
“Investigations on Local Structure and its Influence on Ferroelectric Properties of Complex Perovskite Oxides”
Andrew Martinolich
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
“In Situ Crystallography of Solid State Chemical Reactions”
Elias Nakouzi
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
“From Crystalline Nanorods to Self-Assembled Biomorphs”
Livia Prado
Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Surface Properties of Carvedilol Crystals: Combining X-ray Diffraction
with Advanced Techniques”
Davin Tan
McGill University, Quebec, Canada
“Rational Design of a Family of Organic Thermosalient Crystals”
Daniel Taylor
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
“Reactivity and Oxygen Storage in Materials for Chemical Looping Processes”
Mark Weidman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
“Engineering Transport Rates in Nanocrystal Superlattices using In Situ X-ray Scattering”
Julia Wind
University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
“A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach to Understanding and Developing New Solid-State Ionic Conductors”
Oleksandr Bushuyev
McGill University, Montreal Quebec, CANADA
“Dichroic MOFs as nanosized chemical reactors”
Nicholas Calta
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
“Structural studies of novel materials with unusual thermal expansion”
Reece Hall
University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire, UK
“Structural characterization and ion-exchange study of mixed titanium/zirconium natisite”
Michelle Jamer
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
“Studying the structural disorder in Cr-based inverse-Huesler compounds and its effects on magnetic and electronic properties”
Robert Koch
University of Trento, Trentino, ITALY
“Development and application of novel algorithms for the analysis of structure and nanostructure of materials exhibiting extensive layer disorder”
Dong Liu
University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, CHINA
“Mechanism of flow induced crystallization of polymers: based on synchrotron radiation X-ray and neutron study”
Elias Nakouzi
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
“Understanding and controlling the non-classical crystallization of silica-carbonate biomorphs”
Rishikesh Pandey
Indian Institute of Technology, Banars Hindu University, Uttar-Pradesh, INDIA
“Synthesis and crystal structure analysis of Bi-based morphotropic phase boundary ceramics”
Denis Rychkov
Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk, RUSSIA
“The application of computational methods for structure determination from powder diffraction data”
Filip Topic
Nanoscience Center, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, FINLAND
“Less common halogen bond acceptors: ternary cocrystals, solid-state phenomena and possible applications”
Agris Bērziņš
University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
“On the differences of Crystal Structures for Compounds with almost the same Chemical Structure: Case of Benperidol and Droperidol”
Kunpeng Cui
National Synchrotron Radiation Lab, Univ. of Science & Tech. of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
“In-situ Studying Crystallization and Precursors during Short-term Extension Using Synchrotron X-ray Scattering”
Juli-Anna Dolyniuk
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“New High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Materials Based on Transition Metal Clathrate Frameworks”
Sofia Marah Frias
National Institute of Geological Sciences Quezon City, Philippines
“Characterization of Hydrothermal Alteration Mineralogy using Portable XRD/XRF and Laboratory-Based XRD”
Bahareh Khalili Najafabadi
University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
“New Metal-Phosphido Precursors for Metal-Phosphide Nanocluster Assembly”
Kyle McDevitt
Alfred University, Alfred, NY, USA
“New Ceramic Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells”
Gift Mehlana
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
“Crystal Engineering of Pyridyl Benzoic Acids”
Cristina Motillo
McGill University, Quebec, Canada
“Mechanistic Studies of Solvent-free Transformations of Metal Oxides into Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks”
Guzman Peinado
Facultad de Química, Udelar, Montevideo, Uruguay
“Preparation, Structural Study and Evaluation of Physical Properties of Nanostructured Diacetate Based MOFs”
Clare Rowland
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
“Synchrotron Studies of Melting Behavior in Nanocrystalline Materials”
Thanh Thao Tran
University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
“From Crystallographic Architecture to Centricity Control of Novel Alkaline/Alkaline-earth Lead Fluoride Carbonate Materials”
Benjamin Trump
Johns Hopkins University, Silver Spring, MD, USA
“Dimensionality in the Misfit Series (MX)(1+δ)m(TX2)n as a Chemical Handle to Tune Physical Properties”
Tedi-Marie Usher
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
“Advanced Diffraction Techniques: Structure-Property Relationships in Complex Perovskites”
Ercan Cakmak
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
“Investigation the Effect of Martensitic Phase Transformations and Texture Evolution on the Deformation Micromechanics in TRIP Alloys as a Function of Stress-State using Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Diffraction Techniques”
Martin Donakowski
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
“Toward Molecular Control of Early–Transition Metal Oxide Fluoride Materials”
Rebecca Fischer
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
“Phase diagram of SiO2 at high pressures and temperatures”
Marco Jost
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
“X-ray crystallographic investigation of the light-responsive transcription factor CarH”
Wang Hay Kan
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
“Formation, characterization and application of non-templated mixed conductive nano-tubular CeO2/BaCeO3 composites for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC)”
Christopher Kane
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
“Low Packing Fraction Crystalline Cavitands Exhibiting Molecule-Sized Cavities”
Yu Liu
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
“Defects and deformation-induced new properties in SiC & related materials”
Evgeniy Losev
Institute of Solid State Chemistry & Mechanochemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
“The formation of solid phases in the system «amino acid + dicarboxylic acid”
Nadine Rademacher
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
“High pressure pair distribution function measurements in diamond anvil cells for the analysis of the local structure of compounds consisting of small molecules and their reaction products under extreme conditions”
Yezhou Shi
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
“Understanding the Surface Structure-Activity Relationship in Ceria-based Electro-catalysts Using In-Operando Surface X-ray Diffraction”
Sarah Spisak
University of Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA
“Multi-Electron Reduction of Fullerene Fragments: Structural Studies”
Jennifer Urban
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
“Studying Self-Assembled Small Molecule Hydrogels Using X-ray Crystallography”
Shavait Yamini
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India
“An impediment towards the advent of Breast Cancer: Structural analysis of LPO with various ligands”
Gokhan Barin
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
“Functional Metal-Complexed Building Blocks for Solid-State Structures”
Ercan Cakmak
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
“A Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of Martensitic Phase Transformation Kinetics and Texture Evolution in a TRIP Steel under Torsional and Multi-Axial Deformation Conditions”
Honghan Fei
University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA
“Solvothermal Synthesis of Cationic Inorganic Materials and Cationic Metal-organic Frameworks for Anion Pollutant Trapping”
Sudipto Guha
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
“X-ray Compatible Microfluidic Platforms for Protein Crystallization Screening and De Novo Structure Determination”
Sun Woo Kim
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
“Investigation of New Mixed Valence Iron Fluorides: Crystal Structure and Physical Property Relationships”
Eduard Levin
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
“Influence of Structural Effects in Metallic Systems on Electrocatalytic and Charge-accumulating Properties”
Jia-Sheng Lu
Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
“BODIPY Functionalized PbS Nanocrystals for Solar Cell Applications”
Gregory McCandless
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
“Chemical Crystallography at the Interface of Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering: Structure Determination of Highly Correlated Extended Solids, Main Group Compounds, Coordination Complexes, and Bioceramics”
Gift Mehlana
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
“Crystal Engineering of Some Pyridyl Carboxylic Acids”
Sarah Spisak
University of Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA
“Multi-Electron Reduction of Fullerene Fragments: Structural Studies”
Vedran (Nick) Vukotic
University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
“Utilizing Molecular Machines in the Construction of Dynamic Solid State Materials”
Shuao Wang
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
“New Insights in Actinide Borate Chemistry”
Julie Wilkerson
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
“Electroluminescent Materials Based on Lanthanide-Containing Conducting Metallopolymers”
Gokhan Barin
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
“Metal-Organic Frameworks Incorporating Copper-Complexed Rotaxane Struts”
Jeffrey Bertke
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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Sharon Bone
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
“X-ray Absorption and Scattering Analysis of Hg Sorption by Nanocrystalline FeS”
Honghan Fei
University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA
“Solvothermal synthesis of cationic framework materials, including zeotypes, inorganic extended materials and cationic metal-organic frameworks”
Hua He
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
“Single crystal and high resolution powder x-ray diffraction studies on new antimonides with layered and framework structures”
Zachary Hudson
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
“Triarylboron Compounds for Optoelectronic Materials: Applications in Solid-state lighting and chemical sensing”
Shmuel Samuha
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
“Characterization of the Structure of a New Ternary Phase in Al-Ru-Rh system”
Pradeep Sharma
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
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Chutchamon Sirisopanaporn
Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, Picardie, France
“Crystal Chemistry and Electrochemical properties of Lithium Transition Metal Silicates; Li2MSiO4 where M are Fe and Mn”
Vedran Vukotic
University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
“Development of new materials which have application in non-linear optics, ferroelectronics, piezoelectrics, and other technologically important physical properties”
Andrew Warren
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
“X-ray scattering of nanometric films and interfaces”
Julie Wilkerson
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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Jeongho Yeon
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
“Investigation of New Polar Oxides: Crystal Structure and Physical Property Relationship”
Paul Barron
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
“Directed assembly of functional bimetallic metal-organic frameworks: Decorating nanocavities with exposed metal centers”
Can Bayram
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
“Crystallographic studies of AlGaInN based superlattices for terahertz emitters”
Kenneth Beyerlein
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
“Development of Debye Function Analysis: Application to Pt Nano-catalysts”
Zachary Hudson
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
“Molecular Shape and Light: Optoelectronic Materials from Three-Coordinate Boron Compounds”
Mahadevan Lakshminarasimhan
Ruhr University Bochum/Max Planck Inst., Bochum, Germany
“Exploring the regulation of mammalian Sirtuins using structural biology”
Anna-Gay Nelson
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA
“Polar Uranyl Diphosphonates: An Unusual Case of a Copper(II) Uranyl Diphosphonate that Fluoresces”
Bayrammurad Saparov
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
“Synthesis, crystal structures and physical properties of novel oxy- and halo-pnictides”
Rebecca Sichel
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
“Electric Field Dependent Structure of Low Symmetry Oxide Thin Films”
Andrew Warren
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
“X-ray scattering of nanometric films and interfaces”
Yang Wu
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
“Ternary Zinc Antimonide Derivatives: Structure Characterization and their Thermoelectric Applications”
Tobias Beck
Goettingen University, Goettingen, Germany
“Learning from Metal Sites in Proteins: Crystallographic Studies on Biomimetics”
Olaf Borkiewicz
Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
“The Role of Precursor Formation on Actinide and Heavy Metals Sequestration and Retention in Low Temperature Growth of Apatite”
Dejan-Krešimir Bučar
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
“Metallosupramolecular Capsules with Nanometer-Sized Cavities Derived from a Template-Directed [2+2] Photodimerization in the Solid State”
Amado Guloy
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
“Low Dimensional Charge Density Wave (CDW) Materials for Thermoelectric Applications”
E-Wen Huang
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
“Mechanical Behavior Studies of A Nano-particle Strengthened Nickel-based Alloy Using In-situ Neutron Diffraction and Small-angle Neutron Scattering Methods”
Andrey Ivankin
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
“Determining the Role of Cholesterol in Cell Membrane Physicochemical Properties: an Insight from Synchrotron X-ray Scattering”
Hui Li
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
“Study of GaN and AlN Based Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor and Superconductor”
Christian Long
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
“Rapid Identification of Structural Phases in Combinatorial Thin-Film Libraries Using X-ray Diffraction and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization”
Mary Louie
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
“Crystallographic Compatibility and Phase Transformation Hysteresis in Solid Acid Compounds”
Anna-Gay Nelson
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Understanding the Structural Chemistry of Actinide Phosphonates: Precursors to Advanced Waste Forms for Storing Radionuclides”
Tobias Beck
Goettingen University, Goettingen, Germany
“Learning From Metal Sites in Proteins: Crystallography Studies on Biomimetics”
Sophie Beckett
Cranfield University, Shrivenham, UK
“Species Identification of Bone Fragments: Development of a New Combined Method of Pyrolysis and X-ray Diffraction Analysis”
Dejan-Krešimir Bučar
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
“Metallosupramolecular Capsules with Nanometer-Sized Cavities Derived From a Template-Directed [2+2] Photodimerization in the Solid State”
James Ciston
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
“Experimental Measurement of Surface Valence Charge Density”
Martin Duriska
Monash University, Victoria, Australia
“Multifunctional ‘Nanoballs’”
Beth S. Guiton
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
“Nano-Domain Superlattices: Periodic Nanometer-Scale Phase Separation in A-site Deficient Perovskite Oxides”
Magdalena Korczynska
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
“Structural Characterization of Potential Drug Targets”
Katherine Snoda Ryan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
“Diverging Pathways in Natural Product Biosynthesis: The Crystal Structure of VioE”
Nathan J. Silvernail
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
“Mapping of NO Motion in Solid State [Fe(TpXPP)(NO)(1-Melm)] Complexes”
Bo Song
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
“New Ternary Nitrides & Carbides: Synthesis, Structural Characterizations and Physical Properties”
Guillermo Minguez Espallargas
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
“Solid State Supramolecular Chemistry Involving Halogens: Interactions and Reactions”
Iris Rauda
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
“New Porous Materials for Hydrogen Storage”
Kishore K. Tenneti
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
“X-ray Analysis of the Phase Structures Formed in Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers”
Paul Tobash
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
“Powder and Single crystal X-ray Diffraction Studies of the Vacancy Ordering in Rare-Earth Intermetallics Derived from the AlB2 and α-ThSi2 Structure Types”
Katherine Snoda Ryan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
“Crystallographic Analysis of RebC and RebP”
Natasha Sciortino
University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
“Spin-Crossover and Nanoporosity in Multifunctional Coordination Materials”
John J. Morris
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA
“High-Connectivity Networks Through Alkali Metal Aggregate Assemblies”
James Ciston
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
“Experimental Mearsurement of Surface Valence Charge Density”
Zarife Goknur Cambaz
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
“Selective Etching of SiC Nanowhiskers”
Katherine Hull
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
“Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Geminal Dimetallics”
Donghyun Lee
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
“X-ray Crystallographic Refinement Studies on Magnesium Substituted Brushite for Biological Applications”
Lorien Parker
The University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
“Crystallographic Studies of Glutathione Transferase”
Natasha Sciortino
The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
“Spin-Crossover and Nanoporosity in Coordination Frameworks”
Fleur Tynan
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
“Structural Studies to Elucidate the T Cell Receptor Recognition of MHC Molecules Presenting ‘Super-Bulged’ Viral Antigens”
Yulia Uvarova
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
“Crystal Chemistry of Minerals in the Kola Superdeep Borehole”
Jessica Vey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
“Crystallographic Analysis of Pyruvate Formate Lyase Activating Enzyme”
Jason Benedict
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
“Dyeing Crystals: 19th Century Phenomenology to 21st Century Material Science Technology”
Gali Golan
The Hebrew University of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
“Structure-Function Relationships in DNA-Repair Enzymes”
Katherine Hull
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
“Synthesis and Structural Analysis of Semiconductor Nanowires”
Jun Luo
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
“Crystal Structure and Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth-Cobalt Compounds with TbCu7-Type Structure”
I. Ahmad Mirza
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
“Structural Characterization of Novel Antifungal Targets and Enzymes Involved in Bioremediation”
Kimberly Tait
The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
“Investigations into the Stability, Morphology and the Crystal Structure of the Coexistence of Structure I and Structure II Methane-ethane Clathrate Hydrates – Occurrence and Geological Implications”
Geoffrey Kwai-Wai Kong
The University of Melbourne/St.Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia
“Crystallographic Studies of the Amyloid Precursor Protein (AAP)”
Chong Lim
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
“Reaction Path and Crystallography of CoSi2 Formation on Si(001) by Reactive Deposition Epitaxy”
Andrew Locock
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
“Crystal Structure and Synchrotron Radiation Study of Uranyl Oxysalts of Phosphate and Arsenate – Implications for Remediation”
Robin T. Macaluso
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
“X-ray and Neutron Diffraction Studies for Understanding Geometrically Frustrated Systems”
Petra Simoncic
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
“Defect Structure of the Natural and Synthetic Zeolites Mordenite – Structure Characterization of Dye Modified, Synthetic Mordenite”
Kimberly Tait
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Investigations into the Stability, Morphology and the Crystal Structure of the Coexistence of Structure I and Structure II Methane-ethane Clathrate Hydrates – Occurrence and Geological Implications”
Kacey Claborn
The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
“Measurement of Optical Rotation in the Achiral Crystals of Pentaerythritol”
Sean Dalrymple
The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
“Flexible Hydrogen Bonded Networks via Second Sphere Coordination”
Desiree Fong
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
“Substrate Binding Properties and Reaction Mechanism of an Aminoglycoside-Modifying Kinase”
Erwann Jeanneau
The University of Rennes I, Rennes cedex, France
Design of New Mixed Oxalates With Open-Framework Structures Based on MO8 Building Units”
Chong Lim
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
“Crystallographic and Structural Studies of Cobalt Silicide Formation on Si(001)”
Andrew Locock
The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA
“Crystal Structure and Synchrotron Radiation Study of Uranyl Oxysalts of Phosphate and Arsenate-Implications for Remediation”
Dane A. Boysen
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California , USA
“Hydrogen-Bonding, Phase Transitions, and Proton Conductivity in MH2PO4-Type Solid Acids (M=Li, K, Na, Rb, Cs and NH4)”
Desiree H. Fong
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
“Structural Analysis of an Antibiotic-Detoxifying Kinase”
Jeffrey H. Haeni
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
“Growth and Characterization of Metastable BaTiO3/SrTiO3 Superlattices”
Michael W. Lufaso
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
“Evaluation and Prediction of the Crystal Structures of Single/Ordered/Disordered Octahedral Cation Perovskites Using the Software Program SPuDS”
Jeffrey P. Maranchi
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
“Novel Chemical Synthesis and Characterization of Electrode Materials for Thin Film Lithium-Ion Batteries”
Christine M. Clark McCracken
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
“The Crystallography and Chemistry of Tourmaline”
James Lettieri
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
“Ferroelectric Anisotropy and Integration of SrBi2Ta2O9″
Meitian Wang
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
“Developing Structural Principles for New Ternary Metal-Rich Pnictides”
Christina DeWitt
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
“Determining the Structures of an Fc Derived from a Human IgG1 (k ) Antibody”
Christine McCracken
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
“The Crystallography and Chemistry of Tourmaline”
Maxim V. Lobanov
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
“Structural Studies of Low-Dimensional Magnetic Mn Oxides as Possible CMR Materials”
Jennifer Stone
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
“Structural Studies of High-Power Optical Materials”
Maxim V. Lobanov
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
“Structural Studies of Colossal Magnetoresistant Manganese Oxides”
Chen Yi
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China
“Synthesis, Structure and Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth-Transition Metals-Borides”
Michelle Anne Dunstone
St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia
“Structural Studies of Human Blood Proteins”
James Lettieri
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
“Ferroelectric Anisotropy and Integration of SrBi2Ta2O9″
Heather M. Volz
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
“A Triple-axis Diffraction Investigation into Defects in Crystallized Hen Egg White Lysozyme”
Byron DeLaBarre
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
“Determining the Phases for a Difficult Protein Structure”
Shannon Patrick Farrell
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
“Sulfur K- and L-Edge XANES of 3d Transition Metal Sulphides and Silicate and Germanate Glasses”
Cora Lind
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
“New Negative Thermal Expansion Materials Related to Cubic ZrW2O8″
Oshrit Navon
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
“Polymorphism and the Influence of Crystal Forces on Molecular Conformation”
K. Scott Weil
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
“Investigation of the Formation, Structure, and Magnetic Behavior of Compounds in the Nickel-Molybdenum-Nitride System”
Ekaterina Anokhina
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
“Niobium Oxochloride Cluster Compounds: a Quest for Correlations between Configuration of the Clusters, Framework Topology and Properties”
Nathalie Audebrand
Université de Rennes I, Rennes, France
“Structure, Microstructure and Temperature- dependent Diffraction Studies of New Cerium-based Precursors and Related Oxides”
Susanne Feil
St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Victoria , Australia
“Structural and Functional Aspects of Pore-forming Proteins by X-ray Crystallography and Molecular Biology”
Christopher Theis
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
“Ferroelectric Superlattices and Higher n Aurivillius Phases Grown By MBE”
K. Scott Weil
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
“Investigation of the Formation, Structure, and Magnetic Behavior of Compounds in the Nickel- Molybdenum-Nitrogen System”
Nathalie Audebrand
University de Rennes, France
“Structure, Microstructure, and Temperature Dependent Diffraction Studies of New Cerium-based Precursors and Related Oxides”
David M. Teter
Carnegie Institute of Washington, D.C., USA
“Superhard Carbon Boronitride Alloys: A Rational Approach to Design and Synthesis”
Savvas Savvides
Cornell University, USA
“Structure Determination of the flk2/flt3 Ligand”
Hongwu Xu
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
“Structural Analyses of Stuffed Quartz Phases Along the LiAlSiO4-SiO2 Join”
Patrick Len
University of California, Davis, California, USA
“Theoretical Development of a direct holographic method of determining atomic crystal structure from electron or fluorescent x-ray diffraction data”
Aaron Oakley
St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Australia
“To understand the structure/function of human pi-class Glutathione S-transferases”
Liat Shimoni
Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA
“Determination of the crytal structure of two enzymes-Porphobilinogen Synthase and Ubiquitin caboxyl-terminal hydrolase”
Hongwu Xu
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
“High-Temperature TEM and X-ray Diffraction Studies of the Order-Disorder Phase transition in beta-Eucryptite”
Arturas Vaillionis
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
“Structure Characterization of Bi2Sr2Can-1CunOy thin films with n=2″
Leonard R. MacGillvray
University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
“Noncovalent Interactions and Crystal Engineering Understanding the Solid-State Self-Assembly of Molecules and Ions Isolated from Liquid Clathrate Media”
Kevin F. Peters
Northwestern University, USA
“Small Particle Melting Phenomena”
Peter C. Burns
The University of Manitoba, Canada
“Sterochemistry of Cu+2″
Annapoorna Akella
Oregon State University, USA
“Correlations between atomic structure and luminescent and nonlinear optical properties”
Michael Lloyd
University of Kentucky, USA
“Probability of the formation of solid state compounds”
Peter C. Burns
The University of Manitoba, Canada
“Sterochemistry of Cu+2″
Janet M. S. Skakle
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
“Structures of a variety of barium rare-earth titanates using neutron and X-ray diffraction”
Timothy P. Hackwell
University College, London, England
“High-pressure, high-temperature phase transitions of feldspars”
Janet M. S. Skakle
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
“Structures of a variety of barium rare-earth titanates using neutron and X-ray diffraction”