Prof. Davide M. Proserpio delivered an oral report on the 254th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society held on August 20-24, 2017 in Washington.His report «Exploring structural space searching for carbon allotropes» outlined the research conducted in collaboration with SCTMS members Artem Kabanov and Andrey Golov and with Dr. G. Csanyi and Dr. V.L. Deringer from the University of Cambridge.