The ICMM celebrates its first School on Advanced Structural Analysis in Metal Organic (MOFs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs)

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The Madrid Institute of Materials Science has celebrated its first School on Advanced Structural Analysis in Metal Organic (MOFs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs). The event, held the 5th-6th November at ICMM Lecture Hall, has host more than one hundred attendes in this first edition.

The School was aimed to PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and scientists interested in advanced methods for the structural analysis of porous framework materials.

The programme combined lectures on established and emerging techniques, including powder X-ray diffraction, topology analysis, Pair Distribution Function methods, atomic force microscopy and 3D-PDF approaches, with practical perspectives on their application to MOFs and COFs.

In addition to the scientific sessions, flash presentations and a poster session provided participants the opportunity to present their own research, discuss structural challenges with international experts in the field and establish new collaborations in an informal and interactive environment.

Among its almost 30 speakers, the School welcomed international experts such as David Keen, from ISIS Facility and Oxford University and Emily Keel, from University of Birminghan, as well as distinguised speakers in the field from several Spanish research institutes and uniersities.

Also, the School awarded the best flash presentation and the best poster, which was for Miguel Roselló (Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica) and Arturo Martínez Berná, from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, respectively.

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The school will be renamed in honour of Ángeles Monge

At the end of the second day, Felipe Gándara, an ICMM researcher and chair of the School, announced that it will be renamed as International School on Advanced Structural Studies in Materials Science 'Ángeles Monge', in honour of the late ICMM researcher Ángeles Monge, who built a highly distinguished scientific career in crystallography, solid-state chemistry and materials science. "She has been very inspiring form many people and for me", says Gándara.

"We hope that future editions will continue to be so well received and attract such interest", adds Celia Castillo, ICMM researcher and chair of the School as well.