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Darren Broom

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Product Manager @hidenisochema.bsky.social. Hydrogen storage, gas adsorption & reproducibility enthusiast. Salford University alumni, ex-neutron scatterer & adopted Mancunian. Associate Editor, Adsorption. Editorial Board Member, Green Carbon.

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Darren Broom @darrenbroom.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello BlueSky!

I'm a Product Manager @hidenisochema.bsky.social, a leading manufacturer of gas & vapor sorption instruments. In my spare time, amongst other things, I write articles like this, on gas #adsorption, #hydrogen storage & #reproducibility:

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Challenges in characterizing adsorbents for gas storage and separation - Adsorption

Porous adsorbents, including activated carbons, zeolites, silicas, and newer materials such as metal–organic frameworks, have been investigated extensively for gas storage and separation applications....

link.springer.com

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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 5h

🔓Don't miss our most recent Tutorial Review by @stecanossa.bsky.social from @ethz.ch exploring useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures! ⬇️👏

doi.org/10.1039/D5CE...

#Chemsky #openaccess 🧪

$Symbolic depiction of single crystal diffraction analysis, where Bragg peaks become the basis for an average structure model. Key intermediate is the density derived from intensities, representing the closest view of the average structure.$

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Darren Broom @darrenbroom.bsky.social · 3h

An excellent article.

And, unlike the Nobel Prize Scientific Background document, it doesn't quote 'Langmuir surface areas', which are not really a thing. So, that's good too.

Neil Withers @neilwithers.bsky.social · 5h

Here it is! The full #LongRead feature article on this year's #ChemNobel - @robinson-julia.bsky.social managed to speak to Kitagawa yesterday!

www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...

How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize

From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry

www.chemistryworld.com

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Neil Withers @neilwithers.bsky.social · 5h

Here it is! The full #LongRead feature article on this year's #ChemNobel - @robinson-julia.bsky.social managed to speak to Kitagawa yesterday!

www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...

How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize

From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry

www.chemistryworld.com

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Darren Broom @darrenbroom.bsky.social · 4h

That's a shame. Reticular dumplings may have to find a place further down the journal food chain (so to speak).

Darren Broom @darrenbroom.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe @g-craig.bsky.social would have some ideas for this too...

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Darren Broom @darrenbroom.bsky.social · 10h

I love the idea of metal–organic gyoza! Or MOGs for short.

(Note the important use of an en dash...)

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Darren Broom @darrenbroom.bsky.social · 10h

Worried about meat freshness?

Well, why not eat MOFs instead...

(Part 2 of a meat freshness/MOF series)

Metal–Organic Frameworks from Edible Natural Products

Let them eat MOFs: Take a spoonful of sugar (γ-cyclodextrin to be precise), a pinch of salt (most alkali metal salts will suffice), and a swig of alcohol (Everclear fits the bill), and you have a rob...

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Darren Broom @darrenbroom.bsky.social · 1d

It's the way I tell 'em. I clearly can't crack a joke.

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Darren Broom @darrenbroom.bsky.social · 1d

Oh well. I thought it was a good (heroin) pun...

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 2d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Darren Broom @darrenbroom.bsky.social · 1d

That mistake smacks of speed reading or a lack of attention to detail.

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Hugh Ryan @hughpatrickryan.bsky.social · 1d

This has got to be the best GA I’ve seen this year! #ChemSky

Sebastian Kozuch Comp Chem 🎗️ @kozuchsebastian.bsky.social · 3d

If you're suddenly interested in ℚ𝕦𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕦𝕞 𝕋𝕦𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘, hear me out:
Do you know the famous dead/alive cat?🙀
With @aromaticist.bsky.social group we found a case where the tunneling in rings makes them Aromatic and Antiaromatic at the same time!⌬
doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 1d

Exploring cascaded adsorption cooling cycles with MOF − hydrocarbon integration: An accelerated computational framework using Bayesian Optimization and Monte Carlo http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/TA/D5TA03931B

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jackkclegg.bsky.social @jackkclegg.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to share this little tutorial review:

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

#crystals #flexible #chemistry

Identifying and Characterising Flexible Crystals

Mechanically flexible single crystals are emerging as a useful class of materials due to their unique combination of crystallinity and molecular-scale responses to applied mechanical stress. In this t...

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Peek @peek.bsky.social · 1d

don't british people ever get tired of doing the accent

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Jess Horror-ssette @decafjedi.com · 2d

I've just been introduced to my university's new "Faculty Misconduct Sanction Ladder Matrix," and let me tell you, things are going GREAT in higher education right now.

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Darren Broom @darrenbroom.bsky.social · 2d

Worried about meat freshness?

Well, why not get yourself a #MOF sensor...

Recent studies of metal–organic frameworks as meat freshness sensors

Meat products are a vital source of nutrition for humans, and freshness monitoring is essential for food safety and quality control. Traditional metho…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social · 3d

#ourworldiswonderful; I close tonight with one of many shots I took during my absence online. This is Derwentwater from the shore near Keswick. A wonderful place for great landscapes!

A beautiful September sky is reflected it the still waters of Derwentwater, the lake that laps the shores of Keswick in the English Lake District.

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Day one of our 2025 Crystallography Workshop! Featuring a special pop-up talk from @sbattenresearch.bsky.social about this year's chemistry Nobel Prize, and outreach training where everyone could make their own lolly crystal structure 🍭💎 @crystallised-cricket.com #BraggYourPattern #OzChem

Interpenetrated dodecahedrons made out of lolly cubes and toothpicks

Stuart Battern standing in front of slide with 2025 Chemistry Nobel Prize winners on it in lecture theatre

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Vincent Guillerm @gecniv.bsky.social · 3d

Here's my first MOF paper.💎
It was the first example of using a the premade Zr6 cluster, and we made fcu-MOFs (UiO-66 like) at room temperature.
I never stopped being amazed by #MOFs architecture since then and I definitely make nicer pictures too.
#chemistrynobel #chemnobel2025 #Nobelprize

A zirconium methacrylate oxocluster as precursor for the low-temperature synthesis of porous zirconium(IV) dicarboxylates

The exchange of the monocarboxylate ligand of the zirconium methacrylate oxocluster Zr6O4(OH)4(OMc)12 (OMc = CH2 [[double bond, length as m-dash]] CH(CH3)COO) with dicarboxylic acids (trans,trans muco...

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 3d

Richard would always pop into the lab to see how our reactions were going. He’d take anything that was promising across to the door to the sunlight to peer at it with a hand lens, followed by “I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Stuart”.

I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Derek.

Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:

Bright green transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with copper and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed blocky roughly rectangular pieces with some very large emerald-like chunks.

Pink/red transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with cobalt and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed as a mixture of long rectangular types and aggregated chunks.

Purple transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with cobalt and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed long slightly blocky needles.

Clear transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with zirconium and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed chunky hexagons.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 7d

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Kenichi Endo @kenichiendo.bsky.social · 4d

Celebrated the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for MOFs with #EU4MOFs people!

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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 4d

🔥
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larsohrstrom.bsky.social @larsohrstrom.bsky.social · 5d

That was long and hard work... And @larsohrstrom.bsky.social is now also on bsky!

CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 6d

🧪 "MOFs" or "Coordination Polymers"? Interested in the terminology behind this year's Chemistry #NobelPrize? Read this paper by Lars Öhrström, with coworkers including winner Susumu Kitagawa. Cited in the Scientific Background to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: doi.org/10.1039/C2CE...

Coordination polymers, metal–organic frameworks and the need for terminology guidelines

Coordination polymers (CPs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are among the most prolific research areas of inorganic chemistry and crystal engineering in the last 15 years, and yet it still seems t...

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