Stefano Canossa
@stecanossa.bsky.social
Reticular chemistry, total scattering & Fourier transform enthusiast • Research professor at Ewha Womans University (Seoul 🇰🇷 ) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6817-0810 https://github.com/stecanossa
Check out our new work on identification of #MOF phases and dynamics by THz Raman spectroscopy - great work by @krisgjorgjevikj.bsky.social et al. and many more follow ups to come. I am particularily fond of the non-AI grafical abstract! pubs.rsc.org/ma/article/d...
Excited to release a new open source software, Crystal Builder 1.0! This software aggregates useful software to make it easy to build structures and predict properties. No need to hop between different programs anymore. The program can be downloaded for Mac or Windows at github.com/JulesOpp/Cry...
Just.. wow! 🙌
Milos Dubajic@mdubajic.bsky.social · 6d agoEver wondered how X-ray diffraction works? Now you are able to visualise it in 3D in your web browser for any crystal structure of your choice. Run it: dubajicmilos.github.io/assets/diffr... The full tutorial video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKH... The source code: github.com/dubajicmilos...
Kudos for the stomach to actually open that book already; the review was quite a painful read 🤒 Useful reminder that #crystallography textbooks — not only crystallography-based papers — can be published without sanity checks by crystallographers... with tragicomic results. @springernature.com
Shao-Liang Zheng@shaoliangzheng.bsky.social · 6d ago🫨 I was shocked by the statements made by the original author: "Some space groups may be mathematically legitimate, but chemically impossible... Majority of the 230 space groups proposed 200 years ago, yet to find a crystal structure" @actacrysta.iucr.org #misconception #crystallography #education
Rethinking Rosalind Franklin’s Reputation in Light of Photograph 49 😃 science.org/content/arti... @science.org #IUCr #crystallography #education
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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When I first watched Ghost in the Shell, in 2007 or so, I really wasn't ready to get this detail... #SPring-8
♨️ Warming up Fourier Tiler with a new release, including Temperature param. in the crystal builder! Also: my fancy friends using macOS will not be left alone in this one 🫶 Have fun! ...and let's hope this new version makes the Reviewers happy 😏🤞 Get your copy here: github.com/stecanossa/F...
What do electroactive frameworks, a walk in the beautiful Ewha W.U. campus, and a delicious bulgogi feast have in common? Our guest @manuelsouto.bsky.social visiting us for a great lecture and equally great discussions! 🌟 Looking forward to more visits and exchanges between our groups, Manuel! 🙌
We, the Weizmann Institute of Science community, deeply mourn the passing of Prof. Ada Yonath - Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance. May her memory be a blessing. bit.ly/ada-yonath-eng
Intensity analysis of a dataset can produce some artistic gems... or maybe is the "Eye of the beholder" thing. (yes, the flat field correction of that detector was awful) #Crystallography #Sciart
I just realized that a successful AI tool is one of the best manifestations of the phrase "Fake it 'till you make it" currently available. #ImitationGame
A few days ago it's been confirmed that IUCr2032 will be hosted in South Korea, Incheon; walking across the wonderful Incheon airport I think crystallographers from all over the world will agree the choice is truly "spot on" 😌 #BraggYourPattern, #IUCr2032
Another thing I discovered is that Banff is rich in stripey wonders... mostly (but not entirely) geological ✨ #BraggYourPattern
Impressive case of the renowned pine stacking at Banff National Park
An unforgettable IUCr Congress is about to end; an endless river of old and new expertise that keeps expanding and renewing itself, thanks to these gatherings since 1948. And like many "experts," I now carry with me George Sheldrick's line "An expert is someone who has made all possible errors once"
28th Congress and General Assembly of the IUCr 2029@iucr2029.bsky.social · 2mo ago💙 Thank you, Calgary! What an unforgettable #IUCr2026! Thanks to the organizers and everyone who visited our #IUCr2029 booth, met BearLinette 🧸 and shared the excitement for Berlin 2029. See you in Berlin, 18–25 August 2029! 🇩🇪💙 #Crystallography
If you are at #IUCr2026, come to chat at my poster in next days, there are: - Karl Marx - a card game - authentic Canadian (fake) products - minerals - a lot of stories - ah, some structures too. #chemsky #chemchat #crystallography
If you are attending #IUCr2026, feel welcome to drop by at tomorrow's Software Fayre, where I will give a lecture and practical session on using Fourier Tiler for enhancing your crystallographic teaching, learning, research... or just for casual fun! #crystallography #totalscattering
🔬 IUCr2026 is underway in Calgary! The Electron Crystallography Satellite School has kicked off at the BMO Centre, and tomorrow the IUCr2026 Workshops begin! 🎉 We’re excited to welcome the crystallographic community to Calgary! #IUCr2026 #Crystallography #Calgary
While reviewing I saw another reviewer lamenting that a material's behaviour has been known for decades, while the article is on a new perspective on it. Might be controversial, but I'm sure that discovering new things is more popular and less significant than discovering new ways to look at things.
Do diffraction, have fun, they say... @stecanossa.bsky.social , an analysis by single picture? :) #crystallography #chemsky
I can be considered as experienced crystallographer (>1100 structures, X-ray, neurons, electrons, powder, VT, HP, in situ, in operando, etc, bla-bla), but almost every day, working with small and "simple" molecules, I am asking the question "What The Hell It Is?!" #chemsky #crystallography
Tartaric Acid Crystals I intended to make these right after making the sodium ammonium tartrate crystals, but they kept turning into polycrystals. It actually took quite a bit of effort to grow a single crystal.
I just found out that a tradition of the yearly Chinese dragon boat festival (which ended recently) is drinking realgar wine and my mineral geek side was "oh realgar is so cool" but 100 ms later the chemist side kicked in and "no way it's not just a name..." (apparently it's not) 🫥 🐉
Last week the one an only @furukawas.bsky.social visited @uniulm.bsky.social and gave a fantastic talk on cages, MOFs, and anything in-between. We got a bit confined in our discussions on dynamic frameworks and started a new tradition - Guest Portrait on dry plates with historical camera.
I will just recrystallize this iron food supplement, maybe I will get crystals. Few days later, looking on the crystals: - WTF? What The Framework, I mean? Why MIL-88A? I did not ask for it or any other MOF! Looks like #MOF are inevitable. #chemsky #crystallography
