Our partners at Extratech represented the Hiden Group at the International Conference of Multifunctional Framework Materials in Jinhua, China. They showcased our technologies through demos and discussions. Big thanks to the Extratech team for the excellent support! #MaterialsScience #HidenGroup

Next up, Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social with "Paper Mills, Fraud and More" Paper mills are not predatory publishers - they offer authorship positions and publish in real scientific journals. Lots of profits: folks who need papers, paper mills, journals. #IRICSydney

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Minnesota startup company, Lakril Technologies, manufacturing sustainable materials from plants has been named one of the 10 start-up companies to watch. @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov @amyklobuchar.com LINK: cse.umn.edu/cems/news/la...

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If I knew I could have been conducting this sort of research, I might have been out on the beach shouting at seagulls for the past two decades... abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

Our company, Lakril, was selected by @cenmag.bsky.social as one of the Top Ten Startups to Watch! cen.acs.org/business/bio...

Theorists handling QM software calculations to the experimentalists 🤓 #chemsky #compchemsky

Following #AIChE2025, I had one main aim today & that was to get to Chinatown in Boston & have some dim sum. Thankfully, that was successful (photographic proof attached). My only other aim is to catch my flight home & that seems to be going okay too.

Ok, this has to be the worst/best NMR acronym I've ever seen: "MIChI StAndard foR ReportinG Liquid-StAte NMR ExperIments of SmAll MoleculeS (MARGARITAS)" (Source: www.nfdi4chem.de/uv-vis-michi...) #chemsky

I think about this post every day 🧪

This paper on "Inflatable porous organic crystals", by Len Barbour & his collaborators, looks rather excellent. #ChemSky

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

I've now arrived in Boston & look forward to seeing everyone at #AIChE2025!

We’re excited to exhibit at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2025 in Boston, MA (Nov 2-6)! Join us to see how our precision sorption analyzers can support your research in #CarbonCapture, #Hydrogen storage, and #MaterialsScience. 📍 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center 🔗 www.aiche.org/conferences/...

How odd. An account was set up impersonating me, with an identical bio. It had reposted quite a few of my posts & I believe a few of my followers followed it. It wasn't me. I've now reported it & it seems to have gone already. Thanks to @stecanossa.bsky.social for flagging this up as well.

“Reliability and reproducibility checklist for molecular dynamics simulations”, by the Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com editors www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I sometimes wonder what people who type “u” instead of “you” do with all that time they’ve saved.

A colleague noted that papers with lots of authors tend to get cited more. It may be mainly self-citation effects, but there's probably a feedback loop - more citations make a paper look more citable, so it gets cited more. Anyway, such articles are the ones where authors have done the least. 1/

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

I finished my PhD 10 years ago here a few lessons I have learned after 10 years in academia. 1) If you don’t believe in yourself no matter what, this is not the business for you. 2) Only some universities give promotions to out of the box thinkers and disruptive thinkers. …

Before Richard Robson created the field of MOFs, he created what are now known as "Robson macrocycles", probably the first binucleating and tetranucleating (terms he invented) macrocycles. To create one field of chemistry is amazing, but to create two new kinds of chemistry across a career....

I really like this sentence: "But for now an overwhelming amount of nonsense is still ending up in the published literature." Indeed.

AI is stepping in to help publishers tackle the surge in fraudulent scientific papers. From spotting fake authors to detecting AI-generated text, automated tools are reshaping how journals protect research integrity. But is tech enough to fix a broken system?

This looks very interesting, particularly for any MOF chemists interested in #reproducibility (which should mean all MOF chemists...)

Do you want to produce exactly the same #MOF #particles every time? Do you want to be able to control particle #size and size #distribution? Check out our latest manuscript on #ChemRxiv! 🧪⚛️ More details in my blog post: lookingatnothing.com/index.php/ar... #metalorganicframeworks #stirringmatters

So privileged that I was able to contribute to this wonderful piece by @robinson-julia.bsky.social published in @chemistryworld.com : www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...

Solid-State NMR Provides Location-Specific Information on the Chemical Environment Inside MOF Pores https://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-6xk78-v2?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

This post works better in US rather than UK English.

Julia Robinson spoke to Stuart Batten – Richard Robson's first PhD student to work on coordination polymers – and also had the pleasure of discussing the award-winning work behind this year's Nobel prize with none other than Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa.

Last week Susumu Kitagawa, Omar Yaghi and Richard Robson were awarded the #Nobelprize in #chemistry for their work developing metal-organic frameworks. Here I tell the story of how MOFs came to be - incl. an interview with Kitagawa himself! www.chemistryworld.com/features/how... @chemistryworld.com

"Carspreading" is excellent here

🔓Don't miss our most recent Tutorial Review by @stecanossa.bsky.social from @ethz.ch exploring useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures! ⬇️👏 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... #Chemsky #openaccess 🧪

An excellent article. And, unlike the Nobel Prize Scientific Background document, it doesn't quote 'Langmuir surface areas', which are not really a thing. So, that's good too.

Here it is! The full #LongRead feature article on this year's #ChemNobel - @robinson-julia.bsky.social managed to speak to Kitagawa yesterday! www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

This has got to be the best GA I’ve seen this year! #ChemSky

Exploring cascaded adsorption cooling cycles with MOF − hydrocarbon integration: An accelerated computational framework using Bayesian Optimization and Monte Carlo http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/TA/D5TA03931B

Happy to share this little tutorial review: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #crystals #flexible #chemistry

don't british people ever get tired of doing the accent

I've just been introduced to my university's new "Faculty Misconduct Sanction Ladder Matrix," and let me tell you, things are going GREAT in higher education right now.

Worried about meat freshness? Well, why not get yourself a #MOF sensor...

#ourworldiswonderful; I close tonight with one of many shots I took during my absence online. This is Derwentwater from the shore near Keswick. A wonderful place for great landscapes!

Day one of our 2025 Crystallography Workshop! Featuring a special pop-up talk from @sbattenresearch.bsky.social about this year's chemistry Nobel Prize, and outreach training where everyone could make their own lolly crystal structure 🍭💎 @crystallised-cricket.com #BraggYourPattern #OzChem

Here's my first MOF paper.💎 It was the first example of using a the premade Zr6 cluster, and we made fcu-MOFs (UiO-66 like) at room temperature. I never stopped being amazed by #MOFs architecture since then and I definitely make nicer pictures too. #chemistrynobel #chemnobel2025 #Nobelprize

Richard would always pop into the lab to see how our reactions were going. He’d take anything that was promising across to the door to the sunlight to peer at it with a hand lens, followed by “I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Stuart”. I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Derek.

I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared: