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PRD structure The regular tiling 73 of hyperbolic plane.

x6 + y6 + z6 = 100

By S. Andersson

Mathematical construction: Riemannian manifold is continuously deformed by the procedure called Ricci flow

Natural myelin forms of ammonium oleate, according to the observation of Otto Lehmann, 1887

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Place of conference: Institute of Silicate Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Honorary Chairman A. Mackay, UK

Chairman V. Shevchenko, Russia

International Advisory Committee

S. Andersson, Sweden J. Klinowski, UK R. Catlow, UK S. Lidin, Sweden I. Hargittai, Hungary R. Mosseri, France S. Hovmöller, Sweden M. O'Keeffe, USA S. Hyde, Australia J.-F. Sadoc, France R.L. Johnston, UK M. Senechal, USA M. Kléman, France J.M. Thomas, UK D.P. Thompson, UK

National Advisory Board

V. Dmitrienko V. Shudegov N. Dolbilin V. Urusov M. Kovalchuk A. Vazina I. Moiseev B. Venkov M. Samoilovich

Local Organizing Committee

V. Chibisov L. Mezentseva V. Gusarov N. Shaydullin V. Ivashkin E. Tugova A. Madison V. Zhabrev

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Scope of the Meeting

The EcerS Topical Meeting will gather together a large and qualified audience of materials scientists, physicists, chemists and mathematicians working in the field of nanoscience and nanoworld.

Main Topics

Structural chemistry of the nanoworld

• General problems of symmetry • Use of non-Euclidean geometries for structure description • Curved-space approaches • Coherent cross-linking of nanosized fragments

Nanochemistry

• Chemical strategies for making nanomaterials • Principles of materials self-assembly • Building blocks paradigm • Quasi-equivalence

Structures characteristic of nanoworld

• Modulated structures • Layered structures • Incommensurate structures • Liquid and pseudo-amorphous nanocrystals • Geometrical frustration • Liquid crystals • Amorphous nanoparticles

Lattices and spherical designs

• Modular forms • Lattices and spherical designs • Spherical codes and designs • Invariants for Euclidean lattices • Extremal lattices in higher dimensions • Sphere packings, lattices and groups • Root lattices. Weyl groups, modular forms

Periodic minimal surfaces

• Triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) • Minimal surfaces in silicates, zeolites • Bicontinuous mixtures, lyotropic colloids, detergent films, lipid bilayers and biological

formations

Triple-periodic nets and tilings

• Minimal nets • Regular and quasiregular nets

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• Three-periodic tilings • Periodic and nonperiodic tilings

3D protein structure prediction

• Protein structure prediction in computational structural biology and theoretical chemistry • Biomimetic engineering • Protein-crystal interactions • Biomorphs, biomineralization • Skeletal materials

Structural studies of nanocomposites • Organic-inorganic nanocomposites • Hybrid nanostructures

Nanotectonics • Nanoparticle-based building blocks • Complex hierarchical structures • Templates • Nanoparticle assembly by biological superstructures • Interparticle conjugation

Presentation Formats

The Meeting will include plenary lectures (Pl) and posters (P).

Language

The official language of the Meeting is English.

Meeting Organizers

The EcerS Topical Meeting “Geometry, information and theoretical crystallography of the nanoworld” is organized by the Institute of Silicate Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Foundation for Basic Research and promoted by the European Ceramic Society and the Russian Ceramic Society.

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SSEESSSSIIOONNSS TTIIMMEETTAABBLLEE GEOMETRY, INFORMATION AND

THEORETICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF THE NANOWORLD Topical Meeting of the European Ceramic Society July 30 –August 3, 2007, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

TIME Monday JULY 30

Tuesday JULY 31

Wednesday AUGUST 01

Thursday AUGUST 02

8.45-9.00 REGISTRATION Poster mounting

9.00-9.15 CONFERENCE OPENING 9.15-9.30 PL-01 PL-27

9.30-10.00 PL-02 PL-10 PL-18 10.00-10.30 PL-03 PL-11 PL-19 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK 11.00-11.30 PL-04 PL-12 PL-20 11.30-12.00 PL-05 PL-13 PL-21

12.00-13.30 DINNER

DINNER

DINNER

13.30-14.30 PL-06 PL-14 PL-22 14.30-15.00 PL-07 PL-15 PL-23

15.00-15.30 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK 15.30-16.00 PL-08 PL-16 PL-24 16.30-17.00 PL-09 PL-17 PL-25 17.00-17.30

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PL-26 Discussion,

poster dismounting Discussion

Discussion

CONFERENCE CLOSURE

18.00

FINAL

BANQUET

POSTERS: July 31 –August 2, 2007; 9-30 – 18-00

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PPRROOVVIISSIIOONNAALL PPRROOGGRRAAMM GEOMETRY, INFORMATION AND

THEORETICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF THE NANOWORLD Topical Meeting of the European Ceramic Society July 30 –August 3, 2007, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Plenary Lectures

PL-01 Beyond crystals: the dialectic of materials and information. A. Mackay Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

PL-02 Geometry of proteins: From helices to internal surfaces. J.-F. Sadoc Laboratoire de Physique des Solides Université de Paris-Sud et CNRS, France

PL-03 Disclinations, dislocations and continuous defects in III-ordered condensed media and polynanocrystals. M. Kleman Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Paris, France

PL-04 Historical review about frustrated order in condensed matter systems. R. Mosseri Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Université Paris, France

PL-05 Сombinatorial structures in space of arbitrary dimension: local approach. N. Dolbilin Institute of Mathematics of RAS, Moscow, Russia

PL-06 Crystal twins revisited. M. Senechal Smith College, Northampton, USA

PL-07 Perfect lattices and spherical designs. B. Venkov Institute of Silicate Chemistry RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

PL-08 Periodic packing of cylinders with six directions. Y. Teshima National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan

PL-09 Protein structure prediction. S. Hovmöller, T. Zhou and N. Shu Structural Chemistry Stockholm University, Sweden

PL-10 Geometric principles of nanoparticles self-arrangement. V. Shevchenko Institute of Silicate Chemistry RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

PL-11 Polyhedral structures in chemistry and biology. N. Kuznetsov Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry RAS, Moscow, Russia

PL-12 The formation of bioorganic compounds on the early Earth. Some unsolved problems. L. Mukhin

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Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation RAS (IZMIRAN), Troitsk, Russia

PL-13 Topological invariants of real space. M. Samoilovich JSC Central Research Technological Institute “Technomash”, Moscow, Russia

PL-14 DNA – based nanobioelectronics. V. Lakhno Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS, Pushchino, Russia

PL-15 Hierarchy of nanostructure in natural isoferroplatinum. L. Bityutskaya1, V. Distler2, V. Kryachko2, M. Yudovskaya1, M. Grechkina1, E. Bogatikov1 1Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia 2Institute of geology of ore deposits, petrography, mineralogy and geochemistry RAS, Moscow, Russia

PL-16 The classical geometry of substance in the state of fractional dimensionality. V. Klyucharev Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS, Moscow reg., Chernogolovka, Russia

PL-17 Self-assembly of paraffin nanostructures: Basic principles. Finite automata in structural chemistry. S. Filatov, S. Krivovichev Saint Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

PL-18 Siberian SR studies of nanomaterials. G. Kulipanov, B. Tolochko, N. Lyakhov Siberian Center of Synchrotron Radiation, Novosibirsk, Russia

PL-19 Applications of synchrotron radiation to problems of structural biology A. Vazina Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics RAS, Pushchino, Russia

PL-20 The theoretical prediction of a boron-rich B-C-N-O icosahedral quasicrystal phase and its cluster structure. I. Dudenkov, K. Solntsev Institute for Physical Chemistry Problems of Ceramics RAS, Moscow, Russia

PL-21 Investigation of the dynamics and structure of molecular complexes by femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. S. Chekalin1, V. Kompanetz1, A. Razjivin2 1Institute of Spectroscopy RAS, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia 2A.N.Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

PL-22 The study of copper nanoparticles effect on bacterial cells. A. Rakhmetova1, O.Bogoslovskaya1, M. Ovsyannikova2, I. Leipunsky1, I. Olkhovskaya1, N. Glushchenko1, T.Baytukalov1, T. Alekseeva1 1Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia 2N.M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia

PL-23 Laser cooling for forming new nanostructures. Yu. Rozhdestvensky Institute of Silicate Chemistry RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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PL-24 The application of structural trees of proteins to 3D protein structure prediction. A. Efimov Institute of Protein Research RAS, Pushchino, Russia

PL-25 Structural phase transition in the A60 clusters and in the infinite nanotubes of the same symmetry. S. Siparov Department of Physics and Chemistry, State University of Civil Aviation, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

PL-26 Mega-Information about the nanoworld. R. Andrievski Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS, Chernogolovka, Russia

PL-27 Structure and properties of novel hybrid materials based on colloidal nanoparticles stabilized by various polymers. T. Sukhanova, E. Panarin Institute of Macromolecular Compounds RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Posters

P-01 Structure formation research of cement stone modified by SiO2 nanoparticles. O. Artamonova, D. Korotkikh, O. Sergutkina, M. Khonyakina, E. Chernyshov Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Voronezh, Russia

P-02 Features of a photoluminescence of the glassy nanocomposites of semiconductors (As2S3)100-xAux, (As2S5)100-xAux. A. Babaev, S. Sultanov, A. Askhabov Institute of Physics, Daghestan Scientific Center RAS, Russia

P-03 Thermodynamic and experimental modeling of dental calculus formation. L. Belskaya, O. Golovanova

Department of Chemistry, Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia P-04 Nanoporous zeolite-like borosilicates.

R. Bubnova1, M. Krzhizhanovskaya2, S. Filatov2 1Institute of Silicate Chemistry RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2Dept. of Crystallography, St.-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

P-05 Theoretical prediction of a new C3N4 sp3(С)-polymorph which would be the first example of a quasicrystal fractal foam having a sp3(C)-sphaleryte structure with tetrahedral polyatomic vacancies. I. Dudenkov Institute for Physical Chemistry Problems of Ceramics RAS, Moscow, Russia

P-06 Theoretical prediction of new polyhydroxocompounds of zirconium and cerium with zeolite-like structures or local symmetry of projections of large 4D polytopes (3; 4; 3) and (3; 3; 5). I. Dudenkov Institute for Physical Chemistry Problems of Ceramics RAS, Moscow, Russia

P-07 Yttrium oxide distribution in ceramics on the base of two–fold aluminum – bearing nanooxides, sintesized by sol-gel method.

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B. Dudkin, A. Bugaeva Institute of chemistry, Komi SC, Ur. Div., RAS, Syktyvkar, Russia

P-08 Characteristics of nanopowders of the Fe-Co system. B. Freidin, I. Kolesnikova, Yu. Kuzmich, V. Serba, V. Korotkov, S. Voronchuk I.V. Tananaev Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Rare Elements and Mineral Raw Materials KSC RAS, Apatity, Russia

P-09 The titanium oxide nanoparticles in opal matrix. S. Ivicheva, Yu. Kargin, N. Alad'ev Institute of physical and chemical problems of ceramic materials RAS, Moscow, Russia

P-10 Bi and Te nanoparticles and their binary compounds in opal matrix. S. Ivicheva1, Yu. Kargin1, E. Buslaeva2, G. Yurkov2, N. Alad'ev1 1.Institute physical and chemical problems of ceramic materials RAS Moscow, Russia 2Kurnakov institute of general and inorganic chemistry, Moscow, Russia

P-11 Lipid membranes as nanosystems and related problems of cell and animal biology. D. Kharakoz Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics RAS, Pushchino, Russia

P-12 Highly ordered mesoporous silicates and its investigation using X-ray diffraction. S. Kirik Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

P-13 New version of small-angle X-ray technique on synchrotron radiation source Siberia-2 for studying biological nanostructures. V. Korneev1, V. Shlektarev2, A. Zabelin3, O. Nayda3, B. Medvedev2, A.Vazina2

1Institute of Cell Biophysics, RAS, Pushchino, Russia 2Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, RAS, Pushchino, Russia 3RRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia

P-14 Synthesis and study of the properties of new promising material, superdispersed uranium dioxide, for MOX-fuel fabrication. A. Krivitsky1, I. Manakov1, A. Bobilev1, S. Rovny1, I. Tananaev2 1FSUE “MAYAK” Production Association, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, Russia 2A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Elelectrochemistry RAS, Moscow, Russia

P-15 The crystal structure of sulfur complex in zeolite NaX. A. Lapshin1, E. Vasilyeva2

1Institute of Silicate Chemistry RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2St.-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

P-16 Investigation of nano-layers of hydroxyapatite on a substrate of titanium during high-temperature annealing in air and argon. I. Mittova, A. Berezhnaya Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia

P-17 Thermal oxidation of GaAs under the action of the compositions (PbO+V2O5) with micro-and nano-size particles.

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I. Mittova, V. Kostrukov, S. Skorohodova, K. Medvedeva Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia

P-18 The influence of Bi2O3 in mixtures with Al2O3 and Y2O3 on the process of formation of nano-sized oxide layers on the surface of gallium arsenide. P. Penskoy, V. Kostruykov, V. Pshestanchik, I. Mittova Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia

P-19 Generation of Fe-nanoparticles on the surface of Fe-based amorphous alloys connecting with aging process. S. Ratushniak, N. Gonchukova Institute of Silicate Chemistry RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

P-20 Biocomposite on the basis of cellulose of Acetobacter Xylinum and calcium hydrophosphate is the perspective medical material D. Romanov2, A. Khripunov1, Yu. Baklagina1, V. Sinjaev3, A. Tkachenko4, R. Smyslov1, B. Paramonov5 1Institute of Macromolecular Compounds RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2Institute of Silicate Chemistry RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 3Institute of Chemical Science, Alma-Ata, Republic of Kazakhstan 4St.-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 5St.-Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduated Studies (MAPS), Saint-Petersburg, Russia

P-21 The study of concentrated bismuth nitrate solutions for opal matrix based 3D nanocomposite synthesis. V. Skorikov, T. Kuvshinova, S. Ivicheva, V. Volodin, E. Buslaeva Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, RAS, Moscow, Russia

P-22 Synthesis of high pored functional materials under the nano–gasifier action. T. Shelkovnikova, O. Artamonova, E. Baranov Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Voronezh Russia

P-23 Microstructural features and microtexture of Kamchatka geyserites. L. Shvanskaya1, V. Urusov1, A. Bychkov1, A. Mohov2 1Moscow State Lomonosov University, Moscow, Russia 2IGEM RUS, Moscow, Russia

P-24 ↓ PL- 27

Structure and properties of novel hybrid materials based on colloidal nanoparticles stabilized by various polymers. T. Sukhanova, E. Panarin Institute of Macromolecular Compounds RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

P-25 Interfacial interactions in “metal oxide/gallium arsenide” heterostructures initialized by thermal treatment. A. Sukhochev, E. Mesheryakova, E. Tomina, I. Mittova Voronezh State University, Inorganic Chemistry Department, Voronezh, Russia

P-26 Nanostructural and electrophysical properties of thin films based on the binary oxides system PrOx(TbOx)-YO1,5. P. Tikhonov, M. Kalinina, P. Rastegaev, M. Arsentyev, I. Drozdova Institute of Silicate Chemistry RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

P-27 Vоlume and surface nanostructures and electrical conductivity of n-type

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oхides. P. Tikhonov, V. Popov Institute of Silicate Chemistry RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

P-28 Magnetic properties of hybrid nanocomposites on a basis of water-soluble hemicellulose arabinogalastan. B. Trofimov, V. Ovcharenko, V. Ikorsky, G. Aleksandrova, L. Grischenko, I. Klimenkov, B. Sukhov A.E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia International Tomography Center, Novosibirsk, Limnological Institute SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia

P-29 Influence of selenium: polymer mass ratio on morphological characteristics of selenium – containing nanostructures based on oxyethylcellulose. S. Valueva, D. Ivanov, D. Ershov Institute of Macromolecular Compounds RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

P-30 The principles of nanostructural organization of rod-like biological structures such as the multidomain muscle protein titin A. Vazina1, N. Lanina1, V. Korneev2, A. Gadzhiev3 1Institute of theoretical and experimental biophysics, RAS, Pushchino, Russia 2Institute of cell biophysics RAS, Pushchino, Russia 3Karaev Institute of Physiology, National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan

P-31 Novel X-ray study of tumor transformed tissues and new insight into biomineralization. A. Vazina1,4, N. Lanina1, E. Maevsky1, A. Manushkin1, V. Korneev2, V. Letyagin3, D. Burov3, A. Zabelin4, O. Nayda4, D. Pogorely4, K. Podurets4, W. Bras5, I. Dolbnya6, V. Trounova6, T. Kupriyanova7 1Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics RAS, Pushchino, Russia 2Institute of Cell Biophysics RAS, Pushchino, Russia 3Blokhin Science Center of Oncology, Department of Breast Tumor, Moscow 4Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia 5European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France 6Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, SD RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia 7Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry RAS, Moscow, Russia

P-32 Symmetry peculiarities of nanostructural organization of multidomain proteins of immunoglobulin superfamily. A. Vazina1, V. Vasiliev2 1Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics RAS, Pushchino, Russia 2Institute of Protein Research RAS, Pushchino, Russia

P-33 Resonant small angle X-ray scattering study of silver containing hybrid nanostructures. A. Volkov, T. Sukhanova, J. Santurian, E. Panarin Institute of Macromolecular Compounds RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

P-34 Iron-cobalt nano-powders:preparation and properties Yu. Zakharov, A. Popova Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo, Russia

P-35 Structure formation research of clay raw modified by surface-active agents.

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A. Turchenko, O. Artamonova Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Voronezh, Russia

P-36 Selenium-containing polymeric nanostructures: morphological and thermodynamic characteristics. S. Valueva, T. Sukhanova, G. Matveeva, M. Vylegzhanina, L. Borovikova, A. Kipper Institute of Macromolecular Compounds RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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Puzzle “ascending” (building blocks) By M. Escher

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120-Cell 600-Cell

A projection of the polytope {3,4,3} whose

vertices are the 24 minimal vectors of D4, here represented as elements of Z[ζ].

The “Neovius” periodic minimal surface. One cell is connected to the next by 12 tubes in the [110] directions so that the spaces on each side of the film membrane are congruent but not in communication. The figure is from

the thesis of E.R. Neovius.

Three-dimensional projections or “shadows” of a six-dimensional cubic lattice By A. Mackay

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A big icosahedron outside the icosidodecahedron by S. Andersson

The Pathology of Crystal Life. Abnormal Sodium Chloride Crystals. (“sick”) crystals formed like feathery leaves in a colloidal solution.

By E. Haeckel

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(111)m m-ZrO2 ――――――――――――――― (101)t t-ZrO2 Centaur ZrO2 by V.Shevchenko

Coherent cross linking Graph G by A.Madison

Icosahedral diamond