11th International Workshop on Spinel Nitrides and Related Materials

24 Aug 2025, 14:00 → 29 Aug 2025, 11:00 Europe/Zurich

Hotel Jagdschloss Niederwald

Maxim Bykov (Goethe University Frankfurt), Ralf Riedel, Shrikant Bhat, Elena Bykova

The objective of the 11th International Workshop on Spinel Nitrides and Related Materials is to provide a forum for presentation and in-depth discussion of the latest progress in the continuously growing domain of advanced nitrides and related compounds (including oxynitrides, carbonitrides, nitridosilicates, nitiride-imides, azo-compounds etc.) having exceptional structural and functional properties applicable in extreme environments, microelectronics and energy.

• Synthesis of Novel Materials including high-pressure-high-temperature Synthesis and Novel Synthesis Approaches
• Processing and Sintering
• Thermochemistry, Crystal Chemistry
• Crystal Structure and Microstructure of Nitrides and Related Materials and its Characterization
• Thin-Films
• Porous Materials
• High Entropy Nitrides and Carbonitrides
• Materials Properties for Prospective Structural and Functional Applications
• Correspondence of Nitrides and Structurally Related Oxides
• Modelling of New Phases — Theoretical Prediction of Crystal Structures and Properties

 

If you have any questions contact us at nitrides@chemie.uni-frankfurt.de 

Conference photo from 2023: 

 

Venue

The conference will take place in the Jagdschloss Niederwald in Rüdesheim on the Rhine River, Germany. The location of the workshop has a long history and goes back to 15^th and 16^th century. In July 1948 a meeting took place in the 'Grüner Salon', the so-called 'Niederwald Conference' with participation of Konrad Adenauer and the German heads of provinces, in which the foundation for today’s German Constitution was layed. In the mid - sixties the farming area was leased, and the Land of Hesse started step by step to convert the 'Jagdschloss' into a modern hotel and a place of exquisite hospitality suitable for the organization of such kind of exclusive scientific workshops. The location provides all the required features for hosting a small group of international experts to intensely present and discuss their newest research results in a quiet environment far from other activities. Moreover, the location is easily accessible from all over the world due to the neighboring international Frankfurt airport (1 h by public transport, 30 min by car).

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Sunday 24 August

14:00 → 18:30 Arrival and Check-in

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Monday 25 August

09:00 → 09:20 Opening Session

Speakers: Prof. Maxim Bykov (Goethe University Frankfurt), Prof. Ralf Riedel

09:20 → 10:30 Oral Presentations: Session 1

09:20 Carbon Nitrides Featuring sp3-Hybridized Carbon: Synthesis, Properties and Future Steps

Speaker: Dr Dominique Laniel

10:00 High pressure synthesis of novel functional materials

Speaker: Prof. Huiyang Gou

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Oral Presentations: Session 2

11:00 Nitrogen and Chemical Bonding

Speaker: Prof. Richard Dronskowski

11:30 Theoretical Studies under Extreme Conditions: Towards Advanced Materials

Speaker: Prof. Ferenc Tasnadi

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:30 Oral Presentations: Session 3

14:00 Explorations to C- and N-bearing compounds

Speaker: Prof. Toshimori Sekine

14:30 What is in-common between polynitrides and polycarbides?

Speaker: Prof. Leonid Dubrovinsky

15:00 Preparation and application of nitrides and carbides catalysts.

Speaker: Prof. Franck Tessier

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Oral Presentations: Session 4

16:00 New insights in the chemistry of oxynitride perovskites

Speaker: Prof. Amparo Fuertes

16:30 Perovskite-type oxynitrides for electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction to ammonia.

Speaker: Prof. Yuji Masubuchi

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Tuesday 26 August

09:00 → 10:30 Oral Presentations: Session 5

09:00 Perovskite-related nitrides

Speaker: Prof. Paul Attfield

09:30 Synthesis and Properties of Mixed-Anion Nitrides

Speaker: Prof. Hiroschi Kageyama

10:00 Redox synthesis of transition metal nitrides at high pressures

Speaker: Dr Simon Kloß

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Oral Presentations: Session 6

11:00 Ammonothermal crystal growth of nitride semiconductors – investigations via in situ monitoring techniques and numerical modelling

Speaker: Dr Saskia Schimmel

11:30 Numerical Simulation of PIN photodiodes based on GaN/InGaN/GaN Heterojunction

Speaker: Prof. Mourad Kaddeche

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:30 Oral Presentations: Session 7

14:00 Oxynitrides for direct photoelectrochemical solar energy converters

Speaker: Prof. Anke Weidenkaff

14:30 Slow Photon Photocatalytic Enhancement of H2 Production in Ta3N5 and TaON Inverse Opal Photonic Crystals

Speaker: Prof. Toshihiro Moriga

15:00 Two-dimensional layered oxynitrides for artificial photosynthesis

Speaker: Prof. Kazuhiko Maeda

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Oral Presentations: Session 8

16:00 Recent Results in Nitride Research with Soft X-ray Spectroscopy and DFT

Speaker: Prof. Alexander Moewes

16:30 Atomic dynamics in grain boundary by scanning transmission electron microscopy

Speaker: Prof. Ryo Ishikawa

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Wednesday 27 August

09:00 → 10:30 Oral Presentations: Session 9

09:00 Oxynitride Glasses and Thin Films

Speaker: Prof. Sharafat Ali

09:30 Effect of Electric Field/Current on High Temperature Processing of 8Y-Zirconia

Speaker: Prof. Morita Koji

10:00 From Colloidal Solution to Nanomaterials: Optical Bang-Gap Engineering of Nitrogen Doped ZnO

Speaker: Dr Fabian Grasset

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Oral Presentations: Session 10

11:00 High pressure synthesis and characterization of nitrogen-based compounds

Speaker: Prof. Ken Niwa

11:30 High Pressure Synthesis and Physical Properties of Novel Nitrides

Speaker: Prof. Masashi Hasegawa

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 17:00 Excursion

18:30 → 22:30 Conference Dinner

Thursday 28 August

09:00 → 10:30 Oral Presentations: Session 11

09:00 High-pressure yttrium and scandium polynitrides

Speaker: Dr Andrii Aslandukov

09:30 High-pressure synthesis of inorganic polynitridocarbonates

Speaker: Dr Fariia I Akbar

10:00 Nitridosilicates and their special features

Speaker: Dr Cordula Braun

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Oral Presentations: Session 12

11:00 Novel synthesis of high entropy nitrides

Speaker: Prof. Richard Laine

11:30 Synthesis of anti-perovskite-type nitride nanophases from metal-modified polysilazanes

Speaker: Prof. Samuel Bernard

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:30 Oral Presentations: Session 13

14:00 A theoretical study of R4Sb3 compound

Speaker: Prof. Jean-François Halet

14:30 Boron pnictides under high pressure

Speaker: Dr Vladimir Solozhenko

15:00 High pressure chemistry of metal borides

Speaker: Prof. Elena Bykova

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Oral Presentations: Session 14

16:00 HP-HT experiments performed at the large volume press at DESY, beamline P61B, with in-situ energy dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXRD)

Speaker: Dr Leonore Wiehl

16:30 High-pressure synthesis, mechanical properties and oxidation behavior of advanced boron-containing α/β-Si3N4/Si ceramics using polymer-derived amorphous SiBN ceramics

Speaker: Prof. Wei Li

17:00 Monolithic bodies of gamma-SiAlON-based composites for cutting applications

Speaker: Dr Marcus Schwarz

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Friday 29 August

09:00 → 11:00 Check-out and departure