Employees of the Laboratory of Arctic Mineralogy and Materials Science of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University spoke at the scientific seminar at the SCTMS. There were held the reports by Doctor of Chemical Sciences S. Aksenova, Ph.D. A. Banaru and Ph.D. D. Stepenshchikova on August 5 in Samara in the conference room at st. Novo-Sadovaya, 12.Associate Professor of the Faculty of Chemistry at Moscow State University and part-time senior researcher at KSC RAS Dr. Alexander Banaru in his report “Algorithm for calculating the implicit hierarchical complexity of structures in the ToposPro software package” spoke about the identification and calculation of support contacts in molecules of crystalline substances. “I’m happy to finally be here, to come to Samara to this laboratory and communicate with those people who can best understand me,” comments Alexander. “I use ToposPro a lot and your software is one of the main tools of my work and the main visualization tool.”
The head of the Laboratory of Arctic Mineralogy and Materials Science of the Geological Institute of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sergei Aksenov, in his report “Modularity and topology of compounds with mixed frameworks” spoke about modular crystal chemistry and the experience of analyzing silicates, alluadites, the structural group of eudialyte and other substances. Topological methods, according to Sergei Aksenov, must be used for “therapeutic purposes” by everyone involved in the analysis of crystals and lattices, because one cannot rely on his visual memory or manual comparison; it is necessary to carry out an analysis of topological correspondences, which seriously helps in research.
Dr. Dmitry Stepenshchikov, a researcher at the Laboratory of Arctic Mineralogy and Materials Science of the State Institute of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, gave a report “Structural deformations of fullerenes and graphene,” in which he spoke about the dynamics of changes in fullerene molecules and, in general, about the ways of formation of defects in molecular crystal lattices composed of carbon atoms.