Stefano Canossa

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.

I almost forgot to add a "Quasicrystals" option in there... quite important since Bragg's law does not seem to help but the waves have spoken: they are crystalline! (reciprocal-space definition - dictionary.iucr.org/Crystal) #Crystallography #Education #BraggYourPattern stecanossa.com/cosplayapp/

Maybe someone wondered why I did not put a tool to highlight the Bragg's law when it emerges, or maybe not... Anyway, it's there now ("Bragg condition finder" button), plus an "Explain mode" that describes what the options are for and how to use them. Cheers! 🫸🫷 stecanossa.com/cosplayapp/

I still remember the eye-opening moment when I realized that Bragg and diffuse scattering are both just a sum of waves... I can finally share an applet where anyone can put it into action. No equations, just a play of cosines: CosPlay 👉 stecanossa.com/cosplayapp/ #Crystallography #TotalScattering

Check out our new work on identification of #MOF phases and dynamics by THz Raman spectroscopy - great work by @krisgjorgjevikj.bsky.social et al. and many more follow ups to come. I am particularily fond of the non-AI grafical abstract! pubs.rsc.org/ma/article/d...

Excited to release a new open source software, Crystal Builder 1.0! This software aggregates useful software to make it easy to build structures and predict properties. No need to hop between different programs anymore. The program can be downloaded for Mac or Windows at github.com/JulesOpp/Cry...

Just.. wow! 🙌

Kudos for the stomach to actually open that book already; the review was quite a painful read 🤒 Useful reminder that #crystallography textbooks — not only crystallography-based papers — can be published without sanity checks by crystallographers... with tragicomic results. @springernature.com

Rethinking Rosalind Franklin’s Reputation in Light of Photograph 49 😃 science.org/content/arti... @science.org #IUCr #crystallography #education

♨️ Warming up Fourier Tiler with a new release, including Temperature param. in the crystal builder! Also: my fancy friends using macOS will not be left alone in this one 🫶 Have fun! ...and let's hope this new version makes the Reviewers happy 😏🤞 Get your copy here: github.com/stecanossa/F...

What do electroactive frameworks, a walk in the beautiful Ewha W.U. campus, and a delicious bulgogi feast have in common? Our guest @manuelsouto.bsky.social visiting us for a great lecture and equally great discussions! 🌟 Looking forward to more visits and exchanges between our groups, Manuel! 🙌

We, the Weizmann Institute of Science community, deeply mourn the passing of Prof. Ada Yonath - Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance. May her memory be a blessing. bit.ly/ada-yonath-eng

Intensity analysis of a dataset can produce some artistic gems... or maybe is the "Eye of the beholder" thing. (yes, the flat field correction of that detector was awful) #Crystallography #Sciart

I just realized that a successful AI tool is one of the best manifestations of the phrase "Fake it 'till you make it" currently available. #ImitationGame

Telling everybody we just got the Nobel Prize

A few days ago it's been confirmed that IUCr2032 will be hosted in South Korea, Incheon; walking across the wonderful Incheon airport I think crystallographers from all over the world will agree the choice is truly "spot on" 😌 #BraggYourPattern, #IUCr2032

Another thing I discovered is that Banff is rich in stripey wonders... mostly (but not entirely) geological ✨ #BraggYourPattern

Impressive case of the renowned pine stacking at Banff National Park

An unforgettable IUCr Congress is about to end; an endless river of old and new expertise that keeps expanding and renewing itself, thanks to these gatherings since 1948. And like many "experts," I now carry with me George Sheldrick's line "An expert is someone who has made all possible errors once"

If you are at #IUCr2026, come to chat at my poster in next days, there are: - Karl Marx - a card game - authentic Canadian (fake) products - minerals - a lot of stories - ah, some structures too. #chemsky #chemchat #crystallography

If you are attending #IUCr2026, feel welcome to drop by at tomorrow's Software Fayre, where I will give a lecture and practical session on using Fourier Tiler for enhancing your crystallographic teaching, learning, research... or just for casual fun! #crystallography #totalscattering

🔬 IUCr2026 is underway in Calgary! The Electron Crystallography Satellite School has kicked off at the BMO Centre, and tomorrow the IUCr2026 Workshops begin! 🎉 We’re excited to welcome the crystallographic community to Calgary! #IUCr2026 #Crystallography #Calgary

#BraggYourPattern

My money's on "stacking faults"

Do diffraction, have fun, they say... @stecanossa.bsky.social , an analysis by single picture? :) #crystallography #chemsky

I can be considered as experienced crystallographer (>1100 structures, X-ray, neurons, electrons, powder, VT, HP, in situ, in operando, etc, bla-bla), but almost every day, working with small and "simple" molecules, I am asking the question "What The Hell It Is?!" #chemsky #crystallography

Tartaric Acid Crystals I intended to make these right after making the sodium ammonium tartrate crystals, but they kept turning into polycrystals. It actually took quite a bit of effort to grow a single crystal.

I just found out that a tradition of the yearly Chinese dragon boat festival (which ended recently) is drinking realgar wine and my mineral geek side was "oh realgar is so cool" but 100 ms later the chemist side kicked in and "no way it's not just a name..." (apparently it's not) 🫥 🐉

Last week the one an only @furukawas.bsky.social visited @uniulm.bsky.social and gave a fantastic talk on cages, MOFs, and anything in-between. We got a bit confined in our discussions on dynamic frameworks and started a new tradition - Guest Portrait on dry plates with historical camera.

@kenichiendo.bsky.social could limoncello solve the dispute?

I will just recrystallize this iron food supplement, maybe I will get crystals. Few days later, looking on the crystals: - WTF? What The Framework, I mean? Why MIL-88A? I did not ask for it or any other MOF! Looks like #MOF are inevitable. #chemsky #crystallography

My longest-time favourite crystal growth artist is here! 🤩 Anyone "captured for life by symmetry and by crystals": this is a special one to follow 🌟 #crystallography

The thrill of seeing clean systematic absences in the peaktable hits me every time, exactly as it did a decade ago... it really never gets old. I don't think this is normal but it feels good so yay! 🫠 #crystallography

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📢 New #FourierTiler release! A few fixes, loading animation... and something really cool: an atomic tile builder to create your unit cell approximant with a few clicks, from your favourite cif file — A significant step closer to the #crystallography lab and classroom. 👉 github.com/stecanossa/F...

I keep thinking about it: Koreans love #crystallography but most don't know it yet - Tetragonal lattice at Incheon International Airport, Seoul

I would need a good dose of rationality to avoid eating them, they look so gummy 😐

Nice gadget idea for MOF2026 by @antonpaar.bsky.social, after all that's how Robson started it.. although I could not find a way to make Td nodes. Plenty of time to upgrade it for EuroMOF2027 😏

Our tutorial on gas sorption measurements in MOFs is now available #OpenAccess! We bring together the practical workflow and data analysis basics in a beginner-friendly guide. Hope it will be a useful resource for students and researchers entering the field! @pubs.acs.org doi.org/10.1021/acsm...

This, my friends, is going to be quite something... Let me put it this way 😌 - stay tuned!

Beyond the Google map and Google spreadsheet the #MOF Universe now has an interactive 3D companion. MOF Universe 3.0 renders all 444 research locations on a rotating globe with colour-coded pins, and a built-in search. → Launch MOF Universe 3.0 here: crystalsymmetry.github.io/mof-universe/

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Wow, fully dropping the bird. Big move by @ec.europa.eu Publishers, where you at?