Not that I ever took it personally when I was in the lab. #chemsky #chemchat

Another great article on coffee chemistry from Prof. Chris Hendon chhendon.bsky.social Last week as we finished classes, I was telling them about design-of-experiments using a coffee example... #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last week, Lucas and Jakob visited the UK High-Field Solid-State NMR Facility at the University of Warwick for high-temperature #NMR measurements at their 850 MHz instrument. 🧪 Huge thanks to @panaceanmr.bsky.social for making this possible! 🙌 Stay tuned for the data to be published soon... #chemsky

I'm so happy to finally disclose Fourier Tiler, the software I always wanted to make, so that anyone can experience #Crystallography and #TotalScattering one mesmerizing image at a time! Let your creative curiosity run free in real and reciprocal space! #Braggyourpattern github.com/stecanossa/F...

Self-driving labs are transforming chemistry; but high cost & complexity limit access to a few well-funded labs. We wanted to change that. Our new paper in #NatureSynthesis introduces RoboChem-Flex 🧪🤖 🔗https://nature.com/articles/s44160-026-01053-0 #selfdrivinglab #flowchemistry #optimization

Dear friends, I'm delighted to announce open PhD positions at Ewha Womans University! If you know someone looking for a PhD or a MSc+PhD position, has a passion for the beauty of MOF structures, and doesn't mind the unbelievable nature, food, fun, and cultural marvels of Seoul, feel free to share 🌟

How to make your own robot! A review of people making awesome lab robots out of commercial 3D printers. Thank you @vsaggiomo.bsky.social and Sander for inviting me to help write this paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org. Beep boop! 🤖 #chemsky doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...

Bonn, what a week! 📍 So glad we got to be part of the #HäKoConference2026 again this year — inspiring talks and amazing science. Already looking forward to next year! 🧪🤝✨ #chemsky

Our group members, Lucas Balzat and Sebastian Bette, joined the 34th annual meeting of the Crystallographic Society in Lübeck 🎉 They presented on phase transitions in lithium-tin based ion conductors and novel nickel-magnesium coordination polymers, investigated with in situ diffraction techniques 🧪

The physics of chocolate! physicstoday.aip.org/quick-study/...

New preprint! We worked with data scientist colleagues on how we can tidy up messy records of MOF syntheses and use them for ML. The keyword is "data model"! @esengulciftci.bsky.social @simonkrause.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

Hey #chemchat #chemsky question - an app I used to track journal feeds will be dead soon. Any good tools to keep track of new literature articles? Ideally I'd like something I can 👍👎 and filter out topics or authors (e.g., "exclude this paper mill") Suggestions welcome - I'll post a summary

Four of our PhD students just organized the Max Planck Science Policy Winter School.🏛️ An entire week which brought together 50 young scientists in Berlin to explore where science can have an impact in the political sphere and how it can shape a more resilient future! 🌍 Congrats to them! 🎉

🚀In solid‑state batteries, size matters! Check out our study where we show that larger particles lead to faster lithium transport in solid electrolyte sheets!⚡ #chemsky #RSC #EESBatteries

I just started watching some of the talks from #39c3. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdz... This talk is about a nazi dating platform and who is responsible for it. The end is especially great.

🧵 1/?: Switching a Research Desktop to Linux (Intro & Prehistory) 1/ This is the first in a series of threads/mini-tutorials I'll be posting on switching a real academic research & development desktop to Linux. Not a “open source rocks” 🧵— this is about doing actual science. #ChemSky #AcademicSky

Our PhD student Lucas returned from a trip to Japan🎌🗾 He was a part of a delegation of Junior Experts invited by the Japanese Foreign Ministry to meet with Japanese scientists from academia and industry to discuss how next-generation batteries can help to reach future carbon neutrality 🤩👏

We aim for high-level research, so we decided to put ourselves at the highest altitude in Germany - the Zugspitze! 🏔️❄️☃️ This year's group retreat was fully surrounded by snow, but the confinement effect in the mountain successfully induced our red-hot, strong bonds once again 🤝🤝

Well-made comparison of different sizes of life neal.fun/size-of-life/

#BraggYourPattern in Oslo

I have a question for #chemsky and #chemchat: I often see published PXRD patterns which do not fit to the theoretical pattern of a new structure. If the diffraction data don't support the structure, what does that say about the rest of the characterization?

Surprising to see this in 2025. At minimum, I expected the data to be available upon reasonable request.

I’m excited to join the IUCr Early Career Board for Acta Cryst. A, J. Appl. Cryst., and J. Synchrotron Rad. 💎🌐 Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the crystallography community through meaningful scientific exchange! #IUCr #EarlyCareerBoard 🔗 journals.iucr.org/s/services/e...

Okay, today is physics #NobelPrize day, so there's just enough time for another instalment of... PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 2 In 1912, a Swedish inventor called Gustaf Dalén beat Albert Einstein and Max Planck (inter alia) to the biggest prize in physics. How? Well...🧵🧪⚛️

Ahead of tomorrow’s #NobelPrize announcement, I went on a deep dive in search of the most obscure physics Nobel Prizes in history. That means it's time for a thread on...🧵 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 1 (1/n)

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

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.

This is awesome! #crystallography

Just some pretty crystals #chemsky

"The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request" How can this still appear in scientific papers from 2025? As a reader, reviewer, and evaluator (promotions, faculty hiring, awards), it is a red flag #OpenScience #ChemSky

Check out our new paper just published together with the Canepa group. 🎉📝 We took a deep dive into the crystal structure of Li4SiS4.🔍 This helped us investigate how mixing silicon with tin in Li4SiS4–Li4SnS4 affects the structure and ionic conductivity. 🧩 Check it out ⬇️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

A friend of mine recently showed me cluesbysam.com I really like the puzzles

Look at our first group photo in 2025! We celebrated Bettina's Leibniz award together and enjoyed the beautiful weather of early summer with BBQ ☀️🌲 Here’s to more breakthroughs, sunshine, and sizzling science this year!

New paper just dropped in JACS! 🧪 How does CALF-20 actually changes its bulk structure when exposed to CO₂ & H₂O? Thanks to in situ lab X-ray diffraction, you can now check our latest insights! 👇 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #Chemsky

👏Congrats to Konni, Hannes and our colleagues from the @lotschgroup.bsky.social, whose paper "Predict before You Precipitate: Learning Templating Effects in Hybrid Antimony and Bismuth Halides" is now online on Chem. Mater. @pubs.acs.org!👏 🔗Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... 📝Paper digest: 👇

Predict before you Precipitate! 🤖🧪 Excited to share our new work! We used machine learning to predict the crystal structure of hybrid antimony and bismuth halides. Great collaboration between our colleagues at @fhi-mpg.bsky.social and @lotschgroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #chemsky

The advantages and disadvantages of forgoing the crystalline state:

common knowledge among chemists: compressed gas cylinders basically last forever. some date back to WW2. those used in Nazi Germany (Linde) were marked with swastikas. after the war, the swastikas were defaced into "windowpanes" ⊞ — you can still find such cylinders in the wild today. #chemsky ⚗️🧪

Cool to see the single optical axis in these crystals #chemsky

Sunlight + COFs = Battery? ☀️🔋 Fresh off the press ! 📢📰 Check out our newest work on optoionic charge storage in COFs! #chemsky #energy #COFs

Burning Gallium in Chlorine gas for the preparation of GaCl3 #chemsky

Congrats again to Bettina for being awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award! 🎉 The group is extremely proud! Check out her portrait video ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY47...

Introducing the exciting collaborative work led by Dang Wook Kim on therapeutic microrobots coated with COF!🚚💊 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... A huge thanks to our amazing collaborators for making this possible! @mpi-is.bsky.social x @ethzurich.bsky.social x @mpifkf.bsky.social 🤝

We were excited to be at the #HäkoConference2025 in Innsbruck with some of the team! 🤝✨ Learning, networking, and great science. 🧪 #chemsky @jabla.bsky.social

Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to give a lecture at the 36. Deutsche Zeolith-Tagung in Erlangen and present our progress on the topic of "Light-driven molecular motors in permanently porous Metal-Organic Frameworks".

You also geek out on disordered & defective materials? I and @hannabostroem.bsky.social are organizing a dedicated session at the coming 35th European #crystallography meeting: we'd love to see and showcase your research ✨ Submissions are open at ecm35.org until 30th April, consider joining us!

We are excited to be at the #HäkoConference2025 in Innsbruck with some of the team! 🤝✨ Learning, networking, and great science. 🧪 #chemsky

An alle, die meinen, mit Blick auf den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Rechtsruck wenig bewirken zu können: Das stimmt nicht! Lasst uns bitte die Handlungsräume erkennen und gut nutzen, die wir haben. Deshalb geht bitte morgen zur #btw2025, für die #Demokratie, gegen die extreme Rechte! #noAfD

Structure and transport properties in the pseudo-binary phase system Li4SiS4 – Li4SnS4 Authors: Lucas G. Balzat, Yan Li, Sascha Dums, Igor Moudrakovski, Kristina Gjorgjevikj, Armin Schulz, Yuheng Li, Simon Krause, Pieremanuele Canepa, ... DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-bssbr

The science and language of skateboarding www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c3a...