Stefano Canossa
@stecanossa.bsky.social
Framework materials, total scattering & Fourier transform enthusiast │ Curator of patterns and alternative crystallographic teaching at behance.net/specialdefects
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Stefano Canossa
@stecanossa.bsky.social
· Sep 28
I see some new nice people joining us here on #SciSky #Academicsky - Welcome!! 🎉 🙌 Here's some tips to get you started 👇
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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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🤝 Nanostructured Functional Materials Group, led by CSIC Prof. Daniel Ruiz Molina
🎯 Apply here! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/hzyrxlgjsm
🔃 Or share this post with your connections!
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November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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🤝 Nanostructured Functional Materials Group, led by CSIC Prof. Daniel Ruiz Molina
🎯 Apply here! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/hzyrxlgjsm
🔃 Or share this post with your connections!
#ResearchJobs #BarcelonaJobs
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➡️ 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧
🤝 Nanostructured Functional Materials Group, led by CSIC Prof. Daniel Ruiz Molina
🎯 Apply here! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/hzyrxlgjsm
🔃 Or share this post with your connections!
#ResearchJobs #BarcelonaJobs
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For the first time, scientists have shown that mechanoluminescence can occur in the absence of a crystalline phase and polymer matrix, using amorphous solids made from copper complexes.
Mechanoluminescence goes crystal-free
Bending, twisting and contact separation cause pure amorphous solids made from heteroleptic copper(I) complexes to emit light
www.chemistryworld.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
For the first time, scientists have shown that mechanoluminescence can occur in the absence of a crystalline phase and polymer matrix, using amorphous solids made from copper complexes.
Omg this is a goldmine of beauty and inspiration... 💚 tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de/collection
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Omg this is a goldmine of beauty and inspiration... 💚 tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de/collection
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What do the wrinkly skin of an elephant, the hardy shells of a virus, and the tropical fruit of a Swiss cheese plant have in common? They’re all built from tiny repeating tiles of proteins or other natural materials. https://scim.ag/4plsFPc
Why does biology keep building things out of tiles?
Science talks with two scientists about finding the beauty in nature’s mosaics
scim.ag
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
What do the wrinkly skin of an elephant, the hardy shells of a virus, and the tropical fruit of a Swiss cheese plant have in common? They’re all built from tiny repeating tiles of proteins or other natural materials. https://scim.ag/4plsFPc
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Final chance. Apply by tomorrow(!) for a contributed talk at our #MATSUS26 symposium on Halide #Perovskites for #Quantum Technologies.
📍Barcelona, Spain
📅23-27 March 2026
Abstraction submission link: www.nanoge.org/MATSUSSpring...
@maksymuki.bsky.social
@q-akkerman.bsky.social
@nanoge.org
📍Barcelona, Spain
📅23-27 March 2026
Abstraction submission link: www.nanoge.org/MATSUSSpring...
@maksymuki.bsky.social
@q-akkerman.bsky.social
@nanoge.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Final chance. Apply by tomorrow(!) for a contributed talk at our #MATSUS26 symposium on Halide #Perovskites for #Quantum Technologies.
📍Barcelona, Spain
📅23-27 March 2026
Abstraction submission link: www.nanoge.org/MATSUSSpring...
@maksymuki.bsky.social
@q-akkerman.bsky.social
@nanoge.org
📍Barcelona, Spain
📅23-27 March 2026
Abstraction submission link: www.nanoge.org/MATSUSSpring...
@maksymuki.bsky.social
@q-akkerman.bsky.social
@nanoge.org
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Learn how to select atoms using SMARTS in Mercury by watching this 2-minute video. You’ll learn how to:
✔️Open Mercury and load a structure
✔️Select a substructure using SMARTS
✔️Specify the stereochemical configuration
📽️Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyWv...
#Crystallography #CompChemSky
✔️Open Mercury and load a structure
✔️Select a substructure using SMARTS
✔️Specify the stereochemical configuration
📽️Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyWv...
#Crystallography #CompChemSky
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Learn how to select atoms using SMARTS in Mercury by watching this 2-minute video. You’ll learn how to:
✔️Open Mercury and load a structure
✔️Select a substructure using SMARTS
✔️Specify the stereochemical configuration
📽️Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyWv...
#Crystallography #CompChemSky
✔️Open Mercury and load a structure
✔️Select a substructure using SMARTS
✔️Specify the stereochemical configuration
📽️Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyWv...
#Crystallography #CompChemSky
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📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks in Flow | Andrea Laybourn
Interested in
#flowchemistry?
#crystallography?
#MOFs?
📣 Fully funded PhD available in our group 📣Title: Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive MOFs in Flow
Based in the School of Chemistr...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
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🧪 #chemsky A new single crystal was recently synthesized and obtained, featuring two individual crystals that grew together. This is the second time I have observed this kind of intergrown or concomitant single crystal pair. #Chemistry #SingleCrystal
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🧪 #chemsky A new single crystal was recently synthesized and obtained, featuring two individual crystals that grew together. This is the second time I have observed this kind of intergrown or concomitant single crystal pair. #Chemistry #SingleCrystal
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How could you not love #crystallography? An approximation of the incommensurate structure of Y⅓TaO₃ #ChemSky arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01241
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
How could you not love #crystallography? An approximation of the incommensurate structure of Y⅓TaO₃ #ChemSky arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01241
If you did not get enough on this year's #NobelPrize on #MOFs or just don't get what's all the fuss about, you might enjoy our dedicated Highlight for @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! 😊
A record-speed collab with Stefan Wuttke and Len Barbour 🙏
👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A record-speed collab with Stefan Wuttke and Len Barbour 🙏
👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Chemistry of Space: From Crystallographic Abstraction to Framework Design
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have evolved from a structural curiosity into one of the most dynamic areas of modern chemistry. In celebration of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, this Highlight re...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If you did not get enough on this year's #NobelPrize on #MOFs or just don't get what's all the fuss about, you might enjoy our dedicated Highlight for @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! 😊
A record-speed collab with Stefan Wuttke and Len Barbour 🙏
👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A record-speed collab with Stefan Wuttke and Len Barbour 🙏
👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I archive #PeerReview files since I started in 2018. Today I casually looked at a case from 2022. My review was ca. 1600 words, highlighting plenty of problems and guiding towards solutions. The study was eventually rejected, then published, unchanged, in another journal. Why am I doing this, again?
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I archive #PeerReview files since I started in 2018. Today I casually looked at a case from 2022. My review was ca. 1600 words, highlighting plenty of problems and guiding towards solutions. The study was eventually rejected, then published, unchanged, in another journal. Why am I doing this, again?
Note to Authors, Editors, anyone who cares: I enjoy scrutinizing features and noise (including that of white space, which is a thing for low-res images). If SI images are not sufficiently crisp, I see missing info that I will request, and the review process might have more rounds... ☕ #PeerReview 🫶
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Note to Authors, Editors, anyone who cares: I enjoy scrutinizing features and noise (including that of white space, which is a thing for low-res images). If SI images are not sufficiently crisp, I see missing info that I will request, and the review process might have more rounds... ☕ #PeerReview 🫶
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💼 Work opportunity
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Archivist to continue archiving the Ri’s collection and to review, refine, and further develop our archive structure and systems.
Apply here before 24 November: rigb.org/about-us/work-with-us#a7xPy000000hmfhIAA
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Archivist to continue archiving the Ri’s collection and to review, refine, and further develop our archive structure and systems.
Apply here before 24 November: rigb.org/about-us/work-with-us#a7xPy000000hmfhIAA
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
💼 Work opportunity
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Archivist to continue archiving the Ri’s collection and to review, refine, and further develop our archive structure and systems.
Apply here before 24 November: rigb.org/about-us/work-with-us#a7xPy000000hmfhIAA
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Archivist to continue archiving the Ri’s collection and to review, refine, and further develop our archive structure and systems.
Apply here before 24 November: rigb.org/about-us/work-with-us#a7xPy000000hmfhIAA
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November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
They should make an H(ypnosis)-index for generative-art gifs, defined as the ratio between how long people get trapped in front of it and the actual length of the gif (this is 3 seconds)... For me, this gif has H in the range 20-25
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
They should make an H(ypnosis)-index for generative-art gifs, defined as the ratio between how long people get trapped in front of it and the actual length of the gif (this is 3 seconds)... For me, this gif has H in the range 20-25
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Today we remember Henry Moseley, the Oxford physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy work reshaped our understanding of the elements. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, aged just 27.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Today we remember Henry Moseley, the Oxford physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy work reshaped our understanding of the elements. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, aged just 27.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
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#compchem 🗳️ I'm making a series of exercices on “molecular simulation of materials”, focusing on classical atomistic methods. Other lecturers cover electronic structure and ab initio MD.
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
a woman in a suit says okay in front of a nbc sign
ALT: a woman in a suit says okay in front of a nbc sign
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November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#compchem 🗳️ I'm making a series of exercices on “molecular simulation of materials”, focusing on classical atomistic methods. Other lecturers cover electronic structure and ab initio MD.
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
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I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/...
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
Symmetry groups wrapping paper
You may have heard mathematicians say that there are only 17 types of wallpaper. Which is a shorthand way of saying, if you print a repeating pattern, it will definitely have 1 of only 17 possible sym...
mathsgear.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/...
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
And here we have our Fourier transform nr. 58! As far as I'm concerned, perhaps the most enigmatic and unexpected spectrum so far... anyway, quite a spectacle! #BraggYourPattern #Fouriertransform #crystallography
As always, more on behance.net/specialdefects and instagram.com/specialdefects
As always, more on behance.net/specialdefects and instagram.com/specialdefects
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
And here we have our Fourier transform nr. 58! As far as I'm concerned, perhaps the most enigmatic and unexpected spectrum so far... anyway, quite a spectacle! #BraggYourPattern #Fouriertransform #crystallography
As always, more on behance.net/specialdefects and instagram.com/specialdefects
As always, more on behance.net/specialdefects and instagram.com/specialdefects
While playing around with shapes I discovered another optical illusion: it looks like it's tilting while going inwards, doesn't it... 🧐 it's not — check the corners. Its Fourier spectrum is really unlike anything I've seen so far... will post it soon. #BraggYourPattern
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
While playing around with shapes I discovered another optical illusion: it looks like it's tilting while going inwards, doesn't it... 🧐 it's not — check the corners. Its Fourier spectrum is really unlike anything I've seen so far... will post it soon. #BraggYourPattern
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Understanding geometry through model making
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Understanding geometry through model making
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SAVE THE DATE! The 11th European Crystallography School (ECS11) takes place June 28–July 4, 2026, in Stockholm, Sweden. Topics: single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction & 3D electron diffraction.
Learn from leading experts through lectures and hands-on workshops!
www.ecs11.org
Learn from leading experts through lectures and hands-on workshops!
www.ecs11.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
SAVE THE DATE! The 11th European Crystallography School (ECS11) takes place June 28–July 4, 2026, in Stockholm, Sweden. Topics: single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction & 3D electron diffraction.
Learn from leading experts through lectures and hands-on workshops!
www.ecs11.org
Learn from leading experts through lectures and hands-on workshops!
www.ecs11.org
A truly delightful piece indeed #chemsky
Love this piece in @natchem.nature.com by Judy Wu:
'...benzene is more than a molecule — it is a symbol of industrial revolutions, of new ways to represent molecules, and an example of the quiet forces that move science forward: kindness, conviction, and generosity.'
rdcu.be/eMn4o
#ChemSky
'...benzene is more than a molecule — it is a symbol of industrial revolutions, of new ways to represent molecules, and an example of the quiet forces that move science forward: kindness, conviction, and generosity.'
rdcu.be/eMn4o
#ChemSky
The human story of benzene
Nature Chemistry - The discovery of benzene two centuries ago marked a turning point in chemistry. From contributing to the development of chemical bonding concepts, to its practical use in the...
rdcu.be
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A truly delightful piece indeed #chemsky
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🌟 MOF Expert Panel Confirmed 🌟
Join our expert panel from both academia and industry for an inside look at the tools, trends, and collaborations shaping the future of #MOFs.
👉 attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/482...
#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials
Join our expert panel from both academia and industry for an inside look at the tools, trends, and collaborations shaping the future of #MOFs.
👉 attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/482...
#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🌟 MOF Expert Panel Confirmed 🌟
Join our expert panel from both academia and industry for an inside look at the tools, trends, and collaborations shaping the future of #MOFs.
👉 attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/482...
#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials
Join our expert panel from both academia and industry for an inside look at the tools, trends, and collaborations shaping the future of #MOFs.
👉 attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/482...
#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials
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🎵 Sound-controlled crystals?
In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!
👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Crystallography
In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!
👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Crystallography
October 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🎵 Sound-controlled crystals?
In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!
👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Crystallography
In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!
👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Crystallography