The #CHEAC retreat is about science and having fun together. This is 40 CHEAC’ers creating music out of plastic buckets. It was amazing! Thank you, Peter ⁦⁦Peter Altmann⁩ for a great time 🥁🕺😁

Born #OnThisDay in 1845 was Wilhelm Röntgen, the German physicist who first identified X-rays, for which he won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in1 901. The X-ray below shows the hand of Lord Kelvin, complete with signet ring, and was taken at the Royal Society in 1896. #Physics

Today marks 22 year since Diamond Light Source was officially established! To celebrate Diamond's 22nd birthday we looked into our photography archive to uncover some of the memories over that period. 📸👇 diamond.ac.uk/Home/News/Late… Wellcome pic.x.com/rQdMp79QXK

Back in November, Google announced 2.2 milllion new materials. Today, a paper in Chemistry of Materials from Ram Seshadri and Tony Cheetham dismantles that claim pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Lots of interesting flow chemistry experiments going on in @jensengroup_cph at the moment! This weekend we were at DanMAX for PDF measurements. 🌊

Had a very exciting couple of days in Brussels hearing about porous metal phosphonates at the PHOSPORE Spring School. Very grateful to Ameloot Group for the invitation to speak about PDF analysis and to Wouter for organising such an enjoyable programme! 🇧🇪

Nice to see the ideas developed in my PhD thesis form the foundation for this perspective in Chemical Science! 📘

PDFs incoming in 3, 2, 1… P02.1 DESY

After one delayed flight, a missed connection and 24 hours delay in Paris… I have arrived in Singapore for MOF2024! 🇸🇬 Come talk to me about PDF, amorphous MOFs and aperol!🍹

New preprint on ChemRxiv – A mammoth study on the formation of high-entropy solid solutions and intermetallics! 🧩 doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Something a little different from me… DNA and PDF! 🧬 Pushing the limits of synthesis, detection and analysis, we determine the structure of a tiny DNA-stabilised silver nanocluster while in solution. Super collaboration with Tom Vosch at KU! 🇩🇰 doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

New pre-print available on ChemRxiv! We establish key design principles for the direct synthesis of amorphous MOFs! ⏰ We highlight the use of nanoclusters as precursors, the importance of kinetic control of disorder, and defect engineering via compositional tuning! 🛠️

Now published in Angewandte Chemie! 🤩 Our collaboration with Vosch Lab using PDF to examine the structure of a DNA-stabilised silver nanocluster in solution! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Structure of a DNA-Stabilized Ag16Cl2 Nanocluster in Solution (Kirsten M. O. Jensen and co-workers) adam Vosch Lab #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

📢 Ultra-fast PDFs at European XFEL! 🌍 A huge collaboration from researchers across Europe ⏱️ We achieved a Qmax of 16.6 Å⁻¹ and obtained high quality data in only ~30 fs! Pre-print available on arXiv.org! doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

🔥 Now published in IUCrJ! An exceptional effort from over 45 researchers to perform the world's highest quality ultra-fast total scattering measurements! doi.org/10.1107/S20522… IUCrJ IUCr European XFEL

Adam F. Sapnik et al.: High-quality ultra-fast total scattering and pair distribution function data using an X-ray free-electron laser Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca UCL FAU Erlangen-Nbg Universität Freiburg Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Københavns Uni University of Oxford... #IUCr journals.iucr.org/paper?S2052252…

Our latest article has been highlighted in the International Union of Crystallography Journals Showcase! IUCr IUCrJ I have written about the work and the huge effort required to make experiments like this a reality - check it out below! growkudos.com/publications/1…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

Trapping a Metastable Node in an Amorphous Metal–Organic Framework dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemr…