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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 56m

Workshop day 2: splitting into protein and chemical crystallography streams, beamline practicals and beautiful weather for a bbq 🌞 Also 40 absolutely brilliant flash talks in 40 min- astounded by all the amazing science people are doing! 💎👩‍🔬🧪

Group of people standing outside near a barbeque

Classroom full of people with lecturer at the front

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 16h

Aw, thank you 😊

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 1d

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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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 4d

My first MOF (or coordination polymer - it had both alright!) paper 🥰 I learnt a healthy respect for silver and did some fun ligand synthesis for this work that I did in my Honours year
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 4d

It didn't collapse overnight! Some defects were introduced, which will probably result in peak broadening in the PXRD. Also a passivation surface layer has been added and surface absorbed atoms

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 5d

Layer 3 done! Will it collapse overnight? Probably. Did i have fun? Most definitely! 😂

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 5d

Layer 2 done- added some reinforcement and this must be a flexible MOF, because the guests are structurally integral

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 5d

Making a MOF cake in honour of the Nobel Prize. Wish me luck! (Already some rotational disorder in some of the ligands)

One layer of chocolate and vanilla cake arranged like a mof

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 5d

Just a little humble brag. Here's me getting my PhD with my supervisors - Bernard Hoskins and newly minted #NobelPrize Laureate Richard Robson. So thrilled for Richard, and thinking also of Bernard tonight (who passed away many years ago but was a crucial collaborator of Richard's). #Chemsky #ozchem

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Jamie Gould @jamieagould.bsky.social · 6d

I'm really happy to see that MOFs got the Nobel prize, & that they picked these 3 scientists, who really drove the field. Especially Richard Robson, whose visionary paper showed the first synthesis & predicted the design & functionality of these materials #ChemNobel #Chemsky @rsc-pormat.bsky.social

Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 6d

Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.

The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live

Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry

www.chemistryworld.com

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 6d

Lucky!

Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 6d

Quite funny also to see the ubiquitous "what is a mof" slides being pitched to journalists 😂

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Jean-Philip Piquemal @jppiquem.bsky.social · 6d

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 6d

Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

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Palli Thordarson @palliunsw.bsky.social · 6d

This is a fantastic day for Australian chemistry. First Australian chemistry Nobel prize since John Cornforth in 1975, but Richard Robson's work is at least as impactful. #ozchem

Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 6d

Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 6d

Waiting finally paid off Stu!!!

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 6d

Been hoping for this for years!! Congratulations Robson, Yaghi, and Kitagawa- all founders of a field I'm very proud to be part of!! #OzChem

Nature @nature.com · 6d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 6d

So so happy!! #OzChem

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Tanja Junkers @polymerreaction.bsky.social · 6d

Big party at the other end of town, but very deserved! Glad some aussie science is shining this year in the nobels!

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 6d

Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.

The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live

Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry

www.chemistryworld.com

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Nature @nature.com · 6d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 6d

These are amazing! 😍

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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · 6d

I hope to finish the rest of wallpaper groups cookies during this New Year holidays :)

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks! @elamanor.bsky.social designed it for a sticker competition last year, and I modified it a bit to make the decals

Sticker of the Australian Synchrotron with native florals and branches and the beamlines

Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 12d

Getting crafty preparing for our crystallography workshop. Less than 2 weeks to go, and only 2 bags made. 63 to go!

Black tote bag with an iron on decal of a crystallography pin above the words "Crystallography Workshop" and a synchrotron with floral beamlines

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