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5 September 2026
Master’s students from Moscow State University are completing an internship at the SCTMS
From September 1st to 11th, our center is hosting guests from Moscow who have arrived to learn the basics of using the ToposPro software package and quantum mechanical calculations of the structure and properties of materials. The internship is being conducted by master’s students from the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University. Graduate and undergraduate students from Samara University have also joined the training as students.
1 September 2026
Converting Crystal Chemical Triperiodic Surfaces from ToposPro to 3D Models
Our team has launched a new online converter for creating 3D models of periodic surfaces using ToposPro data. This service converts T3G files to the widely used 3D model format, STL.
27 August 2026
Our youth are the best at ODARMOL-2026
Students from the Chemical Engineering Faculty of Samara State Technical University became winners and runners-up in the 13th annual All-Russian Research Project Competition "ODARMOL-2026" in the Natural Sciences category.
24 August 2026
Zlata Titova Wins in the Materials Science Section of the All-Russian Research Competition
Zlata Titova, a student in the Chemical Engineering Department of SSTU, has reached the finals of the 11th All-Russian Competition of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Research Papers. The final round of the competition will be held in September 2026 in Nizhny Novgorod at the "Science of the Future – Science of the Young" forum.
29 July 2026
SCTMS staff discussed molecular dynamics.
SCTMS staff participated in the 2nd All-Russian Conference "Molecular Dynamics" in Pushkin, St. Petersburg, which was held from June 28 to July 5, 2026. They presented one oral presentation and three posters.
18 July 2026
Center Staff at the National Crystal Chemistry Conference
A large group of SCTMS staff participated in the 12th National Crystal Chemistry Conference, which was held from July 5 to 10, 2026, in Apatity, Murmansk Region. Presentations were given by Prof. V.A. Blatov, Dr. A.A. Kabanov, Dr. O.A. Blatova, E. Barabanova, E. Bukhteeva, M. Smirnova, and V. Nikitina.
17 July 2026
Elizaveta Merzlyakova performed at the FIPTT-2026
SCTMS Laboratory Research Assistant Elizaveta Merzlyakova presented an oral presentation at the 18th International Conference "Fundamental and Applied Problems of Solid State Ionics" (FIPTT-2026). The event was dedicated to the anniversary of Doctor of Chemical Sciences N. G. Bukun and the memory of Professor E. A. Ukshe (Chernogolovka, Moscow Region).
13 July 2026
The IUCr handbook now includes sections on the use of topological approaches in crystal description
The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is publishing the latest edition of Volume G (Definition and Exchange of Crystallographic Data) of the multi-volume handbook International Tables for Crystallography, featuring new sections: Classification and use of topological data and Topology dictionary (topoCIF), dedicated to the topology of crystal structures.
