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Stefano Canossa

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Framework materials, total scattering & Fourier transform enthusiast │ Curator of patterns and alternative crystallographic teaching at behance.net/specialdefects https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6817-0810

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 14d

I see some new nice people joining us here on #SciSky #Academicsky - Welcome!! 🎉 🙌 Here's some tips to get you started 👇

1) #starterpacks allow you to easily follow profiles you might be
interested in, and tailor your daily feed. You into #crystallography ? Here's one go.bsky.app/MoRWz57.

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 16h

That's the burden of a dual-space awareness: you probably unconsciously felt how uncomfortable their diffraction would be. Although sometimes the crystal is so pretty, the diffraction so elegant... and then the average structure is a purgatory.

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 17h

omg that is a gemstone! 🤩

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so glad (right now, only now) that I did not start writing soon enough because of many other circumstances. 🙃

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 1d

I saw that, scrolling your feed, but I had the impression that you just "revived" your profile or something and saw your low followers/following count 😄

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 1d

@larsohrstrom.bsky.social you can find some quick info to start here in this post bsky.app/profile/stec...

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 14d

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 1d

Hear hear everyone: @larsohrstrom.bsky.social finally joined us on Bluesky! Welcome Lars! 🎊 #MOFs #crystallography

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 2d

If you saw enough of my FT galleries you'll know defects and disorder make for prettier total scattering patterns 😌 Looks great!! 👏👏

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 2d

Love the "3D knitting", so much more elegant and cute than the ugly "interpenetration" 💯

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 2d

Such a beautiful work 😊

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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 2d

three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

www.nytimes.com

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 2d

The corrupting power of character budgets

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 2d

The wait is almost over – at 3pm BST we'll be going live with the panel of expert guests we've secured since the prize was announced. We can't wait to bring you discussion, opinion & insight, for what promises to be an enlightening interactive experience.

Nobel prize in chemistry 2025: Reaction

Join us for an exclusive look at the Nobel in chemistry 2025 prize-winning science - make sure you're there on 10 October

www.chemistryworld.com

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 2d

At the time we did not know each other at all. His care for messaging every author personally strongly validated my belief in the importance of genuine and positive interactions with scientists: not obsessing on 'superstars', but rather trying to make the emerging ones feel the importance they have

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 2d

Jumping on this great idea, here's my 1st #MOF paper: a dive into solvent and temperature driven structure change in IRMOF-9 single crystals 💎

As it's part of a special issue for Omar's Wolf prize, I still remember the emotion of an unexpected e-mail from him thanking me for the contribution 🥹

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 2d

It's amazing to see my article on multivariate #MOFs among the few selected by @nature.com to celebrate our new #NobelPrize in Chemistry! 🌟

It brings back fond memories of the long process behind this complex, quite visionary work 😊

www.nature.com/collections/...
The article: 👉 rdcu.be/eKbPX

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

www.nature.com

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 3d

For context, here is the 2013 position on terminology matters by IUPAC: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Terminology of metal–organic frameworks and coordination polymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)

A set of terms, definitions, and recommendations is provided for use in the classification of coordination polymers, networks, and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). A hierarchical terminology is recomm...

www.degruyterbrill.com

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 3d

My take on "MOFs is a fancy way to say coordination polymer". They are, like polyoxometalates and metal halides. Yet, it is useful to realize that #MOF chemistry is based on distinct design principles thanks to the organic linkers, and on properties that don't belong to inorganic coord. polymers.

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Frederik Haase @frederikhaase.bsky.social · 3d

Many more of these absolute bangers can be found here:
www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/_wp/wp-conte...

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 3d

Think so... without. Websites of manufacturers also avoid the hyphen. GPT supports the hyphen, which is a good indication we can safely go the other way 😌

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 3d

I remember someone being very confident about the absence of hyphen. They were probably right since the diffraction is from/on single crystals, but single-crystal would be an attribute, a property, of diffraction... which is not. Like in "craft beer tasting", one would not say a "craft-beer tasting"

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 3d

(and the Nobel foundation folks used the en dash in the announcement 🧐)

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 3d

As far as I'm concerned, absolutely! But I like the fact that the en-dash contains more information in itself... something metal–organic is also metal-organic (or metallorganic), but not the other way around

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 3d

like also a host–guest or a metal–ligand bond, there is connection (logical or physical) between parts with their own identity, so it's en dash and not hyphen

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 3d

my understanding is that, since metal-organic would be something that is hybrid like a metalated porphyrin, metal–organic emphasizes that there are metallic and organic things conencted, which separated are either metal or organic. Subtle I guess, but more "local".

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 3d

Towards new avenues of pedantry! 💥🚀