👋 Our new paper in @natchem.nature.com shows a molecular ferrimagnet that produces almost no external magnetic field and persists well above room temperature.🧲🌡️ Cr(pyrazine)₃ is a simple metal-organic framework with magnetic interactions comparable to the strongest known in inorganic materials. 🔗👇

💫 Quantum Phenomena and Emergent Properties in MOFs ⚛️ is a symposium at the International Conference on Coordination Chemistry in 🇩🇰 this summer, organized by myself and Lars Öhrström. 🏃‍➡️ We welcome submissions for oral contributions by Sunday, March 1 ⏰ iccc2026.com #MOFs #coordinationchemistry

📣PhD Position now available📣 🗓️Application Deadline 8.2.2026 📌The position will be hosted at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense) 🧪You will develop metal–organic frameworks as platforms for multi-electron redox chemistry 🔗 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📣 we are hiring! We are looking for candidates for a fully funded PhD position at EHU to study organic radicals and charge-to-spin conversion mechanisms using computational chemistry methods @ec.europa.eu 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 📅 Deadline: April 17 👇 Details below, please RT www.danielreta.com/phd-computat...

👋New preprint: "Interplay of Redox Non-Innocence and Symmetry Breaking in a 4d Coordination Framework" 🧪We’ve made Mo(pyz)₂I₂, the 4d cousin of the Cr(pyz)₂X₂ family — with redox-active ligands, symmetry breaking, semiconducting transport, and very strong magnetic interactions. 🔗👇

💫 Open PhD position in synthetic lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪 🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... ⏰ Deadline: November 30 Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org

🎓 Early Announcement: The 10th European Conference on Molecular Magnetism (ECMM 2026) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark — Aug 17–20, 2026. Plenary & keynote talks + great opportunities for early-career researchers. 🌐 www.conferencemanager.dk/ecmm #ECMMCopenhagen #MolecularMagnetism #Copenhagen

🧪 Simplicity engineered for magnetism 🧲 📢 Preprint: Cr(pyrazine)₃ - maybe the simplest MOF with potential voids known. Built from Cr(III) + radical pyrazine linkers, this perovskite analogue shows magnetic interactions rivaling the strongest known in inorganic materials, stabilizing order above RT.

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

Useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures

Single crystal diffraction analysis remains the gold standard for the three-dimensional atomic structure characterization of framework materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic fram...

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The Young Researcher Symposium for Hard Matter research is now open for registration! This free 2½-day event is designed specifically for early-career researchers working with or interested in synchrotron and neutron techniques. Register: www.linxs.se/events/2025/...

LINXS Young Researchers' Symposium III - Hard Matter — LINXS

Join us for the YRI Hard Matter Symposium at LINXS – a 2½-day event combining hands-on beamline insights, career development, and networking opportunities for early-career researchers working with syn...

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Deadline alert! Symposia submissions for #ICCC46 close September 15 at midnight. This is your chance to shape the program for Odense 2026. 🌍✨ Submit here 👉 iccc2026.com

We are recruiting! Two 24 month postdoc positions are available with @m-l-baker.bsky.social and I, one mainly synthesis and the other measurements of lanthanide SMMs. Links below, deadline 19th Aug - please re-post: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry:Manchester

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

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Easy, free, fun for kids in the final days of summer- check out our "Try This at Home" activities!

Try This at Home - Magnet Academy

Hey, kids! Do try these cool science activities at home! They’re easy, fun and most can be done with stuff you have around the house.

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We are looking for candidates to host for EPSRC Postdoctoral Pathway Fellowships. If you are interested in applying and you meet all the criteria on the link below please get in touch with me by e-mail. Deadline 16th August. www.se.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...

International PhD scholarship round for 2026 is open at ANU. Aspiring scholars with Masters degree, or equivalent (eg Australia/NZ Hons), interested in computational chemistry, quantum information, molecular spins, vibronic coupling, or something in that vein - get in touch!

Come work with me! The synchrotron is hiring a *permanent* MX beamline scientist with chemical crystallography experience. If you like crystals and fixing things, this is the job for you! 👩‍🔬🔧💎🤖 australian-nuclear.contactrh.com/jobs/12/4355...

⏰ Only three more days to apply for an open PhD position in lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪 🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 📖 You can explore our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org

Crystallographer Helen Dick Megaw was born 118 years ago today. Her studies of the structure of perovskites in the 1940s and 1950s culminated in her 1957 book Ferroelectricity in Crystals which explained their ability to produce electricity and store information. tinyurl.com/mr429bx3 #WomenInSTEM

Helen Dick Megaw and the Dynamic Lives of Inorganic Molecules.

In 1941, the first patent was filed for a hot new product that stood to revolutionize the electronics field - it was a capacitor that employed barium titanate (BaTiO3), one of a small family of molecu...

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There are heaps of interesting short reads in the Women in Science Archive for anyone interested in reading about some of the pioneering women across all fields of science and mathematics

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Crystallography legend Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born 115 years ago today. She cracked the structure of penicillin, vitamin B-12 (for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize), and ultimately, in 1969, the 788 atom structure of insulin. tinyurl.com/5n76x7n3 #WomenInSTEM #Chemistry #Physics 🧪

👋 We are excited to share an open PhD position in 4f/5f chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at the Technical University of Denmark!🧪 🔗 See more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 📅 Deadline: May 30 📖 Find our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org/articles/

PhD scholarship in switchable f-block–organic framework materials - DTU Chemistry

PhD scholarship in switchable f-block–organic framework materials. The PhD project will focus on the design, synthesis, and characterization of new types of metal-organic network structures, which inc...

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🎉 Just out in Chem! @cp-chem.bsky.social "Molecular alloying drives valence change in a van der Waals antiferromagnet" 👉 See: www.cell.com/chem/abstrac... for materials synthesis, and lots of electron, (high-pressure) X-ray, and neutron diffraction and spectroscopy, magnetism and transport.

Molecular alloying drives valence change in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

Engineering van der Waals (vdW) crystals leverages control of the confinement and transport of charge, spin, and heat in 2D atomic layers. This study introduces a new function by altering valence stat...

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Scientists discovered that a special arrangement of europium ions connected by organic molecules could be ideal for efficient magnetic cooling at extremely low temperatures.

Unlocking Ultra-Cold Cooling: A Unique Magnetic Material for Next-Generation Refrigeration - MagLab

A two-dimensional triangular network of europium ions connected by organic pyrazine molecules is shown to possess the perfect ingredients for efficient magnetic refrigeration at very low (sub-kelvin)…

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Like f-elements in unusual oxidation states? Please look at this 4-year #PhD position between Manchester and Peking University to isolate formally divalent molecules and determine their electronic structures with advanced X-ray spectroscopic techniques. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

(UoM - Peking University) Rare Earth Covalency and Electronic Structure Quantification with Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - (UoM - Peking University) Rare Earth Covalency and Electronic Structure Quantification with Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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An inspiring article by Margaret M. Sheil! Since the early 1900s, pioneering women in Australian chemistry have paved the way for future generations, building a strong network of role models and mentors. #AusJChem #chemistry @csiropublishing.bsky.social Detail- www.publish.csiro.au/CH/CH11182

Women in Chemistry in Australia: From a Slow Start to a More Promising Future

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🎉 Our latest research on valence tautomerism in 4f-organic materials is now out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org We explore the factors driving conversion temperature, cooperativity, thermodynamics, and the magnetic & conductive properties of this fascinating, new class of materials. 🧲⚡ Read it here🔓👇

Another recent ChemComm article, from @majadunstan.bsky.social and @kasperspedersen.bsky.social‬ 'Valence tautomerism, non-innocence, and emergent magnetic phenomena in lanthanide-organic tessellations' pubs.rsc.org/en/cont...

Valence tautomerism, non-innocence, and emergent magnetic phenomena in lanthanide-organic tessellations

Coordination networks based on lanthanide ions entangle collective magnetic phenomena, otherwise only observed in inorganic 4f materials, and the tunable spatial and electronic structure engineering intrinsic to coordination chemistry. In this review, we discuss the use of 2D-structure-directing linear {LnII

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Check out our recent paper on a Eu(II)-organic triangular tessellation exhibiting a magnetocaloric effect in the sub-Kelvin regime ❄️ Super chuffed to be involved in this project!

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🎉 New sub-Kelvin cool paper out in the Journal of the American Chemical Society❄️❄️ "A Triangular Frustrated Eu(II)–Organic Framework for Sub-Kelvin Magnetic Refrigeration" 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

📣📣PhD Position available in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Southern Denmark📣📣 🗓️Application Deadline: 5 March (23:59 CET) 🔁Reposts appreciated 👇👇See Below for more information and to apply👇👇 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

🎈The "2024 Pioneering Investigators" Feature Article by @majadunstan.bsky.social and me is highlighted in today's ChemComm! "Valence tautomerism, non-innocence, and emergent magnetic phenomena in lanthanide-organic tessellations" 📖 Check it out here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

📣Join this group at the Technical University of Denmark👇🇩🇰 We have an open 2-year postdoc position on MOFs with metallic cluster nodes. Excellent skills in synthetic chemistry and crystallography are key. Read more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...