BCA Spring Meeting 2007.

University of Canterbury, 17-19 April 2007
Industrial Group XRD Highlights

• XRF Programme and BCA meeting pages (link to separate pages)
• Registration (link to separate page)
• Call for posters please offer a poster at this meeting.
• IG Highlights and Programme schedule
• Individual Session Details:
• Co-crystals of Pharmaceutical Materials 15:15 - 16:45 17^th April
• XRF / XRD Joint session on thin films. 10:15 - 12:00 18^th April
• IG Keynote Speaker, 14:15 - 15:00 18^th April, Professor R. L. Snyder, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Diffraction from Surfaces and Two Dimensional Crystallography. 15:30 - 17:00 18^th April
• One Hundred and One Ways to Prepare an XRPD Sample. 10:15 - 12:15 19^th April
• A Standardless Future for Quantitative XRPD? 13:30 - 15:00 19^th April
• Industrial Group Posters
• Industrial Group AGM 18^th April 2007 at 13:00

Call for Posters.

The oral sessions are now complete so we encourage you to present your work in a poster with a chance to win a prize. The deadline for poster abstracts is 16^th February 2007. See below for more details.

There is considerable overlap with the Groups at this meeting and it important that you review the full programme on the BCA meeting pages. We concentrate here on items of particular interest to the Industrial Group.

Industrial Group Highlights

There is something to keep you occupied over the full three days including a comprehensive exhibition featuring all the major suppliers, a real chance to update your product knowledge in a fast changing market place.
There will be a Lonsdale Lecture, Bragg Lecture, Hodgkin Lecture, Posters and Exhibition Open Evening with buffet & wine (18:30 - 22:00) on Tuesday 17th April see BCA meeting pages for further details.

Individual Session Details Follow

Download a printer friendly 37Kb PDF IG XRD programme

Co-crystals of Pharmaceutical Materials

Tuesday 17th April, 15:15 - 16:45

Chairs:
Anne Kavanagh, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield.
Roy Copley, GSK, Harlow.

15:15 Learning from cocrystals - their design, construction and properties.
Bill Jones, University of Cambridge.

15:45 Co-crystals -- does thermodynamics hold the secrets of drop grinding.
Keith Chadwick, University of Manchester.

16:15 Panic to Panacea: Cocrystallisation in Pharmaceutical Development.
Chris Frampton or Mark Eddleston, Pharmorphix Limited.

XRF / XRD Joint session on thin films.

Wednesday 18^th April 10:15 - 12:00

Chairs:
Dave Taylor, ICDD.
Chris Staddon, University of Nottingham.

10:15 Thin Films and Coatings by XRF and XRD: an Overview.
Tom Ryan, Nanometrics, Oregon, USA.

11:00 Advanced solid-state X-ray detector for the analysis of thin layered structures.
Joachim Woitok, PANalytical.

11:20 Up-To-Date XRD-Techniques for investigating ultra-thin films and ultra-small features.
Hugues Guerault, BrukerAXS.

11:40 X-ray probes of the layer and interface structure of nano-scale films for opto-electronics and spintronics.
Brian Tanner, Bede.

IG Keynote Lecture,

Wednesday 18th April, 14:15 - 15:00 Chair: Jeremy K. Cockcroft.
Nano- Materials
Professor R. L. Snyder, Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract. Note 18kb PDF file opens in a new window.

Diffraction from Surfaces and Two Dimensional Crystallography.

Wednesday 18^th April 15:30 - 17:00

Chairs:
Judith Shackleton, University of Manchester.
Richard Morris, Morris Analytical X-ray.

15:30 Structural studies of ordered mesoporous silica in channelled substrates.
Donna Arnold, University College Cork

16:00 X-ray characterisation of nanomagnetic materials.
Tom Hase, University of Durham.

16:30 SAXS and GI applications using a novel modular laboratory system.
Peter Laggner, Graz.

One Hundred and One Ways to Prepare an XRPD Sample.

Thursday 19^th April 10:15 - 12:15

Chairs:
Jeremy Karl Cockcroft, UCL.
Martin Gill, Natural History Museum.

10:15 Industrial Group Young Crystallographer Prize talk.

The session will continue in workshop style led by the chairs and conclude with:

Random Diffraction Patterns (without really trying).
Gordon Cressey, Natural History Museum.

A Standardless Future for Quantitative XRPD?

Thursday 19^th April 13:30 - 15:00

Chair:
Steve Norval, ICI, Wilton.

Standardless XRPD now appears viable with methods based on crystal structure data and others on the Powder Diffraction File. Are these techniques really ready for us to use? Is quantitative or semiquantitative analysis becoming routine without the hassle of the old standards based methods? Is there still a place for analysis with standards? These are questions with relevance to many XRPD labs and contributions are invited towards establishing the state of the art in real laboratories.

13:30 Random Mounts and Reproducibility - The Key to Standard-less Q. P. A.
Gordon Cressey, Natural History Museum

14:00 Quantitative Analysis of Mixtures Using High Throughput Instrumentation without the Use of Standards.
Christopher Gilmore, etc al, University of Glasgow

14:20 Quantitative Analysis of Cements.
Rob Hill, BrukerAXS

14:40 Applications of Rietveld in Aluminium Production.
Paul O'Meara, PANalytical.

15:00 Closing Remarks.

Industrial Group and XRF Posters

Posters are invited for display at the Spring Meeting. As an extra incentive to your participation, in addition to the acclaim that your poster will no doubt bring, the Industrial Group are offering a magnificent prize of £50 and a bottle of Champagne for best poster.

The poster abstract deadline is 16^th February 2007 and they should be submitted by E-mail to: abstractbca@glasconf.demon.co.uk
Abstracts should fit on a single side of A4 and be in a font no smaller than 12 point Times Roman or 10 point Arial or equivalent. The preference is Microsoft Word Format.

Some guidelines follow for what we would prefer to see in our posters and our adjudicators will work from these.

Posters are encouraged that:

• are relevant to industry (including some background and value of the work to industry)
• have clear aims, results and conclusions
• concentrate on telling the story, rather than fine detail
• are not an advertisement for a commercial product

For more information, contact:

Industrial Group AGM

The 24^th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Industrial Group will be held at Canterbury at 13:00 on 18^thApril 2007

Nominations are sought to fill vacancies for Chair and three committee members to serve for three years from April 2007.

Nominations, which shall be proposed by not less than two members of the Group and shall be accompanied by the written consent of the nominee, shall be sent to reach the Honorary Secretary of the Group not later than seven days before the Annual General Meeting.

Contact the Secretary/Treasurer