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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 2d

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The Cheungsters @thecheungsters.bsky.social · 2d

10 days left to submit your abstract! Join us and an impressive list of speakers at MRS spring 2026! Please repost! 🙏👍🙏

#conference #chemistry #MOF #Science #NobelPrize #MRS #EuroMOF #materials #sustainability #research #Hawaii

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Symposium SF08-Functional Porous Frameworks Materials—Advancing Sustainable Applications

The 2026 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, April 26–May 1 in Honolulu, will bring together researchers from academia, industry, and government for a week of collaboration and scientific exchange—highl...

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 6d

My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography

Useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures

Single crystal diffraction analysis remains the gold standard for the three-dimensional atomic structure characterization of framework materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic fram...

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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · 17d

b, depending on how extensive the reviews were 🧐

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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · Sep 3

Woah, beatiful! Also: 😂

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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · Jul 3

Oh, I am actually really curious now. I assume it is lower for triclinic? Unless there is a lot of cases where people have missed out on some symmetry. 😮

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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · Jul 3

Somwhere between 0.5 - 1.5 %? 😅

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Mike Glazer @glazer1.bsky.social · Jun 19

Whether you're just starting out or well established in your field, adding your name helps build visibility, collaboration and community.

Join the World Directory of Crystallographers. It's free!
Sign up today and connect with peers worldwide:
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Cathleen Crudden @cathleencrudden.bsky.social · Jun 19

Keep this in mind when everything we do has to be PURPOSE driven. This is not how innovation works. It is often about curiosity. It can be silly.

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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · Jun 18

Nytt nummer av SU:s nyhetsbrev: Läs om Vasaskeppets lillasyster Falken, donation på 40 milj till forskning om film och teater, ny teknik som avslöjar strukturen hos färgämnet karmin, Tovetorps forskningsstation, semestertips och tips för att en skön ledighet. Läs & prenumerera: www.su.se/nyhetsbrev

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · Jun 13

I hope you enjoyed my little #tiling voyage a few weeks ago 😊 Now you can admire some of the protagonists in this contribution to @iucrj.iucr.org Newsletter, along with some thoughts inspired by me being an irredeemable #PatternSeeker ❄️

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#BraggYourPattern

(IUCr) articles

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ottlaboratory.bsky.social @ottlaboratory.bsky.social · Jun 12

Interested in how surface layers can impact photocurrents from illuminated semiconductors? This is illustrated in MOF-coated semiconductor photoelectrodes.
Check it out, open access in @jacs.acspublications.org
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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · Jun 8

Woah, that sure is something... 😅

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · Jun 5

Getting a small-molecule crystal structure of a sixty-year-old drug should be no problem, right?

Not One of Your Easy Crystals

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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · Jun 4

Definitely the most surprised I've been upon acquiring a powder X-ray diffraction pattern, and then looking at the beatiful crystals in an electron microscope! 🔍💎

Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · Jun 4

Using advanced electron crystallography techniques, researchers at Stockholm University have succeeded in determining the structure of the red pigment carmine. It turns out that the substance, used today in products such as candy and paint, has a complex porous structure.
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Structure of the natural red pigment carmine revealed - Stockholm University

Using advanced electron crystallography techniques, researchers at Stockholm University have succeeded in determining the structure of the historically significant red pigment carmine. It turns out th...

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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · Jun 4

Using advanced electron crystallography techniques, researchers at Stockholm University have succeeded in determining the structure of the red pigment carmine. It turns out that the substance, used today in products such as candy and paint, has a complex porous structure.
www.su.se/english/news...

Structure of the natural red pigment carmine revealed - Stockholm University

Using advanced electron crystallography techniques, researchers at Stockholm University have succeeded in determining the structure of the historically significant red pigment carmine. It turns out th...

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Ken Inge @keninge.bsky.social · Jun 3

Carmine is a red pigment used since antiquity to color textiles, in paintings by Rembrandt and Van Gogh, and today as a food coloring agent (E120).

Very excited that @esvenssongrape.bsky.social finally reveals the crystal structure of carmine by #3DED!

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Brilliantly Red: The Structure of Carmine

Carmine is a red pigment made from dried cochineal, a scale insect that has been a source of brilliant scarlet reds in clothing and art for more than two millennia, with records dating back to 700 BC....

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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · May 16

Woah, sucha beaut! But yeah, that little cross 😂👀

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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · May 14

Turn-on Conductivity with Proton-Coupled Electron Transport in Metal–Organic Frameworks https://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-h4f9w?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

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Mircea Dincă @mirceadinca.bsky.social · May 9

Exicted about our new work on the really unusual (and highly informative) water capture properties of the SU-102 MOFs. A shoutout to @keninge.bsky.social and his group for ongoing work with this awesome series! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

High-capacity water sorbent cycles without hysteresis under dry conditions - Nature Communications

There is a lack of water sorbents capable of cycling water vapor under dry conditions without hysteresis or decomposition. Here, the authors demonstrate that the anionic MOF SU-102 exhibits high-capac...

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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · May 9

That is awesome! 🙌 Congrats!

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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · May 5

Yeah, anytime I "need" to work with such poor data I would also do a refinement against PXRD, and show raw structure solutions, reconstructed reciprocal space of ED data (space group assignment) etc., as some form of due diligence.

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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · May 1

Pocket guide to materials discovery calculation methods (repost from the other place)

A table comparing the computational power of HPC and a furnace

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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · Apr 26

a close up of a man 's face with a hand visible

Alt: Neo, in movie "The Matrix", gesturing a "come here" motion with his hand, palm facing himself.

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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · Apr 18

Brontosaurus or dragon would have been even cooler, smh 🙂‍↔️

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