The 6th LOBSTER chemical-bonding school will take place in Berlin, between June 11-13, at the BAM. Please apply free of charge at bam-akademie.de/kursangebot/ku… Dear #compchem aficionados, hope to see you in Berlin!

The University of Innsbruck has a magnificent main building, but unfortunately they have abandoned X, it's just too dangerous here.

Dedicated to Gordie Miller, colleague and friend!

Hartmut Bärnighausen, one of the most important German solid-state chemists and inventor of the group-subgroup family trees, has passed away at the age of 92. He was a fine colleague, always moderate in tone, extremely precise in his arguments. Despite his very few publications,

There is important news for #compchem and #materials scientists, especially those working in industry. Wellenfunktion GmbH Wellenfunktion GmbH (motto: Explore Chemical Bonding) was founded recently and specializes in scientific consulting and software development. If you are

Today I remembered a happy day in 2024 when one of my doctoral students, an exceptionally gifted theorist, was awarded his PhD. Peter's fantastic contributions helped to reveal “metavalency” (in phase-change materials) to be invalid, not a new type of bonding but known as

Can one predict crystallographic information (crystal system, extinction group, space group) from machine learning trained against a plethora of simulated powder XRD patterns? Yes, we can! A contrastive representation learning approach significantly outperforms previous

Welcome Nicholas David (Wenhao Sun Group, Michigan) and Hicham Bourakhouadar (Richard Dronskowski, Aachen) for their JST ASPIRE visits! Enjoy your stay, and we look forward to the joint research ahead!

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of celebrating the incredible careers of Gordie Miller, Irmi Schewe-Miller, and Joe Burnett at their retirement party. We wish you all the best in your next adventures! Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate!

It gave me great pleasure to write this little commentary, especially as the accompanying topical review by Hoser and Madsen is extremely well done.

It is a very special pleasure to present a new perspective article published in the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Science, open access of course. Using only three examples focusing on molecular crystals (carbonate chemistry), we show the importance

These are the participants of the 6th LOBSTER school, this year in Berlin, at the BAM. Even the weather is playing along!

To all my friends in China: the translation of my recent chemical-bonding primer will come out soon, possibly in October or so. Please spread the news, thank you!

I owe a lot to Tohoku University and its great colleagues, so I'm happy to repost. A top institute at a leading university in Japan, in beautiful Sendai.

To all friends of chemical bonding: there was a comment on our recent bonding analysis in phase-change chalcogenides, to which we have written a reply. All such materials have electron-rich multicenter bonds with ½ bond orders, but QTAIM (a density-chopping method) doesn't get it