The joint SCTE&IMC 2026 meeting, bringing together the 25^th International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements and the XVI International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds, will serve as a forum to present and discuss new results on synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications of solid compounds of d- and f-elements, as well as intermetallic and related compounds.

The conference language is English.

 

MAIN TOPICS

• synthesis and characterization
• phase equilibria and phase transitions, thermodynamics
• crystal structure, crystal chemistry
• electronic structure, chemical bonding
• simulation, machine learning, databases
• magnetic, transport, and optical properties
• topological and correlated matter
• energy production and storage, applications

Roman Gladyshevskii, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine

Fernando Bartolome, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Ernst Bauer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Rached Ben Hassen, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

Jean-Louis Bobet, University of Bordeaux, France

Herbert Boller, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria

Radovan Černý, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Ross Colman, Charles University, Prague, Czechia

Thomas Fässler, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Daniel Fruchart, Institut Néel, CNRS, Grenoble, France

Mauro Giovannini, University of Genoa, Italy

Antonio Pereira Gonçalves, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Yuri Grin, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany

Ladislav Havela, Charles University, Prague, Czechia

Dariusz Kaczorowski, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, PAN, Wrocław, Poland

Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Arthur Mar, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Takao Mori, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

Mathieu Pasturel, University of Rennes 1, France

Rainer Pöttgen, University of Münster, Germany

Klaus Richter, University of Vienna, Austria

Peter Rogl, University of Vienna, Austria

Caroline Röhr, University of Freiburg, Germany

Andrzej Szytuła, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

The originally planned conference site was Lviv, Ukraine, but, because of the on-going war in Ukraine, SCTE&IMC 2026 will be held in Lublin, Poland. Lublin is the 9^th largest city in Poland, situated 174 km south-east from Warsaw, and 188 km north-west from Lviv. It is a beautiful and interesting city, with a well-preserved Old Town, broad gastronomic offer, and a rich history.

Oral and poster sessions will take place at the Lublin Conference Centre.

The basic conference fee for a regular participant is 400 EUR, for a student 200 EUR.

Deadline	January 15, 2026	March 15, 2026	June 15, 2026
Regular participant	350	400	450
Student / Retired	175	200	225
Accompanying person	75	100	125

The category Student includes PhD students; retired participants are assumed not to be employed.

Special fees will be applied for participants from Ukraine.

The conference fee includes access to the complete scientific program, get-together party, as well as lunch Monday-Thursday, and the book of collected abstracts.

Modalities for payment will be specified later.

January 15, 2026 – deadline for early-bird registration

March 15, 2026 – deadline for submission of abstracts

June 15, 2026 – opening of the conference

We cordially invite you to present new results on any aspect of solid state chemistry and physics of compounds based on d- and f-elements, as well as intermetallic and related compounds. Participants who would like to make a presentation (short oral or poster) are asked to submit an abstract (1 page A4). Accepted contributions will be available on-line and printed in the book of abstracts.

The abstracts must be written in English.

Please submit your abstract online by completing the Abstract Submission Form (one form per abstract). The text of the abstract should be prepared in A4 format with Times New Roman font 12 pt, using single spacing (margins: top – 3.5 cm, bottom, left, right – 2.5 cm). An old abstract can be downloaded and used as starting point (template).

The Abstract Submission Form should be submitted before March 15, 2026. The presenting author will be informed about the decision of the Organizing Committee (short oral or poster presentation ) by March 31, 2026.

Participants should register online by completing the Registration Form. Registered participants who pay the registration fee, attend the meeting and contribute with an oral or poster presentation will receive a certificate of attendance (2 credits of ECTS).

The registration desk at the Lublin Conference Centre will be open throughout the duration of the conference for information and general assistance.

The joint SCTE&IMC 2026 meeting is organized under the auspices of the

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Ukrainian Crystallographic Committee

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Roman Gladyshevskii (chairman), Oksana Zaremba (secretary), Karin Cenzual, Grygoriy Dmytriv, Dorota Kołodyńska, Igor Melnyk, Khrystyna Miliyanchuk, Volodymyr Pavlyuk, Svitlana Pukas, Zofia Rzączyńska, Yaroslav Tokaychuk

Department of Inorganic Chemistry
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Kyryla i Mefodiya St. 6, UA-79005 Lviv, Ukraine
telephone: +380 32 2600388; e-mail: scte.imc.2026@gmail.com
website: chem.lnu.edu.ua/about/departments/scte_imc_2026

SCTE&IMC First Circular

Both the International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements and the International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds have long-standing tradition. SCTE meetings have been held since 1965, in Austria, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom, IMC meetings since 1971, always in Lviv, Ukraine.

 

PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF SCTE

24 International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements (SCTE 2024), Prague, Czechia

23 International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements (SCTE 2022), Bordeaux, France

 

PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF IMC

XV International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds (IMC-XV), 2023

XIV International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds (IMC-XIV), 2019

XIII International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds (IMC-XIII), 2016

XII International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds (IMC-XII), 2013

XI International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds (IMC-XI), 2010