Stuart Batten

#BraggYourPattern

Nonsense. It’s a coordination polymer, but it’s just a 1D chain. No pores. Not a MOF. Not every coordination polymer is a MOF, no matter how sexy, trendy and headline grabbing the jargon is. Sigh. #MOF #notaMOF In fact, the ligand is technically not even organic. No C-H.

With the 2026 #NobelPrizes around the corner, a quick plug for an upcoming special issue of @ausjchem.bsky.social for one of last year’s winners, Richard Robson. All submissions welcome; details below. Nominal deadline November 30, 2026. #MOFs #ozchem connectsci.au/ch/pages/cal...

Just another reason I left the farm to become a crystallographer. #IUCr2026

The #BraggYourPattern project was done very proud at #IUCr2026 by @rosieyoung.bsky.social’s presentation. I got a bit emotional to see all that this group has done over 5 years now! (Picture taken with permission from the speaker)

Since 2022: >100 entries in a kids pattern competition ~480 visitors to a pop up science festival at IUCr2023 341 kg model of diamond made of 62,356 atoms 775 free Crystal Explorer kits in Aus/NZ primary schools School visits, outreach training, digital resources... AND so much more to come!

I don't we, as chemists, spend enough time just asking ourselves "what the fuck is up with technetium?"

#BigBucky has come out from hibernation again for today’s #MonashOpenDay. #BraggYourPattern

Who's going to #IUCr2026 in Calgary? As the world's crystallographers 'assemble' in Canada - can we post some #BraggYourPattern pictures that we find on our journeys?

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Our very last #BraggYourPattern Crystal Explorer kit has been ordered! After 3 years of working on this project, we have finished with 775 sets going to 697 primary schools across Australia and NZ, including some of the most remote schools in the world! A great legacy of #IUCr2023. #ozchem #IUCr

🎉740 Crystal explorer kits sent to primary schools all over Australia and New Zealand - the last 10 will get sent out this week! Thanks to everyone who signed up for one. #BraggYourPattern

Had a great visit to my old high school, Wangaratta High School, a few weeks ago, to talk about #MOFs, #Nobels, and assorted study and career tips. Always a privilege to talk to kids about the joys of chemistry, particularly country kids who have few scientific role models. #outreach #ozchem

So here’s why my flight to #MOF2026 got diverted to Tahiti (not my video). Not shown is the hour of abusive screaming as he was sat on by passengers at the back of the plane until we landed. Fun times.

Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize winner and crystallography pioneer, was born #OTD in 1910. Using X-ray crystallography she determined the structures of complex molecules including vitamin B10 and insulin: www.compoundchem.com/2019/05/12/h... #ChemSky 🧪

‼️Don't miss our latest Editorial – The crystal engineering foundations of the MOF Nobel Prize Nathaniel Rosi, @furukawas.bsky.social & @sbattenresearch.bsky.social all share their experiences of working on MOFs in future Nobel-winning laboratories👏⬇️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... #Chemsky🧪

Ever wonder what it was like to help create a new field of chemistry? Wonder no more... #ozchem #MOFs #BraggYourPattern The crystal engineering foundations of the MOF Nobel Prize - now published in CrystEngComm pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit

Come and work with me! The Austron is hiring a chemistry focused beamline scientist on the MX beamlines! Get in touch if you are interested 💎🧪👩‍🔬 #ozchem careers.ansto.gov.au/job/Melbourn...

Congratulations to Helen Maynard-Casely and Team for the winning project Crystal-a-con in a Box 🙌 @crystallised-cricket.com

Great day yesterday talking to the kids of the LabRats Science Club (labratclub.com) about all things MOFs and Nobels. These weekend science clubs are so rare and wonderful - true diamonds in the rough. Still not convinced about the cardboard cutouts though... #OzChem

Here's the latest distribution map. 53 more schools have signed up since the post below! The most recent order is from a remote school in the Pilburra (NW part of WA), somewhere down the track in the photo. The Satellite view reinforces how remote it is. They also have an #elementsets on its way!

We just crossed the milestone of the 500th school to sign up for their crystal explorer kit!! #BraggYourPattern

Attention crystallographers and X-ray Analysts of Australia and New Zealand!! The SCANZ/AXXA conference this year will be in my beautiful home state of South Aus (I'm not biased at all 😉). Save the date! 💎 #BraggYourPattern #Ozchem

No, you’re easily distracted! #crystallography #curling #winterolympics

That's a wrap from #Supramol26. #Supramol27 will be in Brisbane - see you there! #ozchem

All the award winners from #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Man Him Chak and Lara Holburn on receiving Poster Prizes at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Jess Algar on receiving the @chemcomm.rsc.org Poster Prize at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Svenja Buescher on receiving the @chemicalscience.rsc.org Poster Prize at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Nina Lawson and Sem Boulanger on receiving Best Talk Prizes at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Simona Capomolla on on receiving the Merck Best Talk Prize at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Our paper on the instrument, beautifully named Wombat, is now published doi.org/10.1107/S160... @japplcryst.iucr.org - We're currently also open for experiment submissions - deadline 16th March neutron.ansto.gov.au

Congratulations to Witold Bloch on the awarding to him of the Fay and Len Lindoy Medal at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Oscar Williams, the second of our Supramolecular Division PhD Prize winners at #supramol26. #ozchem

Dev Chatham bringing us lipids and cartoons at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Emily Worobiej, all the way from Birmingham, telling us about some interesting MOF photophysics at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Packed room listening intently at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Bailey Richardson is throwing photons at peptides at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Will Murrell, the first of our Supramolecular Division PhD Prize winners at #supramol26. #ozchem

A quick word from our sponsors at #Supramol26. #Merck #ozchem

Steph Bird and Rosie Young working in tandem to update #Supramol26 on the latest developments on the MX beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron. #ANSTO #ozchem

Simona Capomolla keeping the cage theme going at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Sam Boulanger on dynamic coordination cages at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Taslima Binte Kamal taking us into the exciting world of Cucurbituril at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Tayyba Tariq from Swinburne U updating is on her latest research at #Supramol26. #ozchem