The spinning blurred early X-ray images, making precise atomic mapping difficult. Olmstead helped overcome this by co-crystallizing them w/host molecules to hold the spheres in place. Her crystallographic work produced clear structures of fullerenes, advancing #nanotechnology research.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
September 30, 2026 at 10:08 PM
The spinning blurred early X-ray images, making precise atomic mapping difficult. Olmstead helped overcome this by co-crystallizing them w/host molecules to hold the spheres in place. Her crystallographic work produced clear structures of fullerenes, advancing #nanotechnology research.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
Structural biology is in an era of dynamics & assemblies but turning raw experimental data into atomic models at scale remains challenging. @minhuanli.bsky.social and I present ROCKET🚀: an AlphaFold augmentation that integrates crystallographic and cryoEM/ET data with room for more! 1/14.
February 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Structural biology is in an era of dynamics & assemblies but turning raw experimental data into atomic models at scale remains challenging. @minhuanli.bsky.social and I present ROCKET🚀: an AlphaFold augmentation that integrates crystallographic and cryoEM/ET data with room for more! 1/14.
New Preprint!! We show that binding entropy can be quantitatively predicted from crystallographic ensemble models, accounting for both protein conformational entropy and solvent entropy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 21, 2026 at 8:49 PM
New Preprint!! We show that binding entropy can be quantitatively predicted from crystallographic ensemble models, accounting for both protein conformational entropy and solvent entropy! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Okay only one comes immediately to mind in geology:
penetration twins
(Crystallographic term)
penetration twins
(Crystallographic term)
November 10, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Okay only one comes immediately to mind in geology:
penetration twins
(Crystallographic term)
penetration twins
(Crystallographic term)
Fearon et al (2024) Accelerating #DrugDiscovery With High-Throughput #Crystallographic #Fragment Screening and Structural Enablement. Appl Res e202400192 #FBLD #FBDD #DrugDesign #MedChem #StructBiol #OpenAccess #chemsky 🧪
doi.org/10.1002/appl...
doi.org/10.1002/appl...
Accelerating Drug Discovery With High‐Throughput Crystallographic Fragment Screening and Structural Enablement
Crystallographic fragment screening has become highly efficient, overcoming previous challenges of low throughput and time consumption, due to advances in synchrotron technology and the establishment...
doi.org
November 28, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Fearon et al (2024) Accelerating #DrugDiscovery With High-Throughput #Crystallographic #Fragment Screening and Structural Enablement. Appl Res e202400192 #FBLD #FBDD #DrugDesign #MedChem #StructBiol #OpenAccess #chemsky 🧪
doi.org/10.1002/appl...
doi.org/10.1002/appl...
something something crystallographic groups
March 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
something something crystallographic groups
I have found these two papers that are the same paper🤦♂️ published in two different journals more or less at the same time. Do you know other examples?
pubs.acs.org/jpcafh/artic...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
pubs.acs.org/jpcafh/artic...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Nature of Halogen···Halide Synthons: Theoretical and Crystallographic Studies
Abstract. Two types of halogen···halide synthons are investigated on the basis of theoretical and crystallographic studies;
the simple halogen···halide syn
pubs.acs.org
October 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I have found these two papers that are the same paper🤦♂️ published in two different journals more or less at the same time. Do you know other examples?
pubs.acs.org/jpcafh/artic...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
pubs.acs.org/jpcafh/artic...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I’m giving my first ever keynote talk next week at the British Crystallographic Association Spring Meeting… I’m excited/scared/feeling all the feelings!
April 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’m giving my first ever keynote talk next week at the British Crystallographic Association Spring Meeting… I’m excited/scared/feeling all the feelings!
Porous crystals have been engineered to trap ‘oily’ molecules — enabling X-ray structures to be determined for these compounds that defy standard crystallographic analysis
https://go.nature.com/4cqvNUF
https://go.nature.com/4cqvNUF
Docking stations in porous crystals unlock elusive molecular structures
Porous crystals have been engineered to trap ‘oily’ molecules — enabling X-ray structures to be determined for these compounds that defy standard crystallographic analysis.
go.nature.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Porous crystals have been engineered to trap ‘oily’ molecules — enabling X-ray structures to be determined for these compounds that defy standard crystallographic analysis
https://go.nature.com/4cqvNUF
https://go.nature.com/4cqvNUF
You also geek out on disordered & defective materials? I and @hannabostroem.bsky.social are organizing a dedicated session at the coming 35th European #crystallography meeting: we'd love to see and showcase your research ✨
Submissions are open at ecm35.org until 30th April, consider joining us!
Submissions are open at ecm35.org until 30th April, consider joining us!
35th European Crystallographic Meeting
35th European Crystallographic Meeting
www.ecm35.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
You also geek out on disordered & defective materials? I and @hannabostroem.bsky.social are organizing a dedicated session at the coming 35th European #crystallography meeting: we'd love to see and showcase your research ✨
Submissions are open at ecm35.org until 30th April, consider joining us!
Submissions are open at ecm35.org until 30th April, consider joining us!
Oyster shells of nacre
Crystallographic form
Nature’s hand has borne
✨
Mysterious gem
Alluring Iridescence
Treasure of the sea
✨
Barefoot at seaside
Oyster pail and scoop in hand
Please grant me a pearl
#HaikuChallenge #Haiku #Poetry
#micropoetry #WritingPrompt #Nacre
Crystallographic form
Nature’s hand has borne
✨
Mysterious gem
Alluring Iridescence
Treasure of the sea
✨
Barefoot at seaside
Oyster pail and scoop in hand
Please grant me a pearl
#HaikuChallenge #Haiku #Poetry
#micropoetry #WritingPrompt #Nacre
March 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Oyster shells of nacre
Crystallographic form
Nature’s hand has borne
✨
Mysterious gem
Alluring Iridescence
Treasure of the sea
✨
Barefoot at seaside
Oyster pail and scoop in hand
Please grant me a pearl
#HaikuChallenge #Haiku #Poetry
#micropoetry #WritingPrompt #Nacre
Crystallographic form
Nature’s hand has borne
✨
Mysterious gem
Alluring Iridescence
Treasure of the sea
✨
Barefoot at seaside
Oyster pail and scoop in hand
Please grant me a pearl
#HaikuChallenge #Haiku #Poetry
#micropoetry #WritingPrompt #Nacre
This is one of my favorite images, taken by my amazing colleague Nick Tosca. It's a single microfossil that I picked with a micromanipulator and placed on a transmission electron microscopy grid. We did this to examine the crystallographic structure of the apatite minerals that make up the fossil
November 20, 2024 at 1:09 PM
This is one of my favorite images, taken by my amazing colleague Nick Tosca. It's a single microfossil that I picked with a micromanipulator and placed on a transmission electron microscopy grid. We did this to examine the crystallographic structure of the apatite minerals that make up the fossil
Oddly conflicted, I love paddlewheelite and its crystallographic name, but the beauty of cryptomelane-group oxide mineral mannardite is not to be sneezed at!
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 16 - It's a battle of the tiny as bright green #paddlewheelite goes up against jet black #mannardite. Both are small yet mighty minerals, but only one can win!
Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote in Round 1 Match 16 — Mineral Cup
Click here to vote in Paddlewheelite vs Mannardite Photo credits: Travis Olds and Matteo Chinellato
www.mineralcup.org
September 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Oddly conflicted, I love paddlewheelite and its crystallographic name, but the beauty of cryptomelane-group oxide mineral mannardite is not to be sneezed at!
Putting the “troll” in petrology, time to dust off your best minerals facts and - more importantly - crystallographic slap-downs. MMA? Mutual Mineralogic Annihilation! There can be only one left standing. #MinCup25 ⚒️🧪
Hark! Is that a mineral list I spy? www.mineralcup.org/2025/mineral...
Lots of new contenders this year as we increase to 75% turnover for #MinCup25.
Lots of new contenders this year as we increase to 75% turnover for #MinCup25.
Minerals List — Mineral Cup
www.mineralcup.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Putting the “troll” in petrology, time to dust off your best minerals facts and - more importantly - crystallographic slap-downs. MMA? Mutual Mineralogic Annihilation! There can be only one left standing. #MinCup25 ⚒️🧪
Crystallographic Ensembles Reveal the Structural Basis of Binding Entropy in SARS-CoV2 Macrodomain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690589v1
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Crystallographic Ensembles Reveal the Structural Basis of Binding Entropy in SARS-CoV2 Macrodomain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690589v1
Carolyn P. Brock: Can Z, the number of formula units per unit cell, be a fraction? A report of the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature ##CommissionReport##Z##NumberOfFormulaUnitsInTheUnitCell... ##IUCrhttps://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2053273325007053
Can Z, the number of formula units per unit cell, be a fraction? A report of the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature
The Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature has concluded that, in some rare, carefully justified circumstances, Z, the number of formula units in the unit cell, may be a fraction.
journals.iucr.org
August 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Carolyn P. Brock: Can Z, the number of formula units per unit cell, be a fraction? A report of the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature ##CommissionReport##Z##NumberOfFormulaUnitsInTheUnitCell... ##IUCrhttps://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2053273325007053
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Are there any crystallographers here?
Real ones, I just play one on the Internet: aflow.org/prototype-en...
Are there any crystallographers here?
Real ones, I just play one on the Internet: aflow.org/prototype-en...
Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes
encyclopedia_teal_natural
aflow.org
December 22, 2024 at 1:27 AM
🧪
Are there any crystallographers here?
Real ones, I just play one on the Internet: aflow.org/prototype-en...
Are there any crystallographers here?
Real ones, I just play one on the Internet: aflow.org/prototype-en...
In the latest @livecomsjournal.bsky.social
perpetual review, Cavender et al overview NMR and crystallographic experimental datasets that can be used to benchmark protein force fields, including best practices for setup and analysis of simulations!:
livecomsjournal.org/index.php/li...
#compchem
perpetual review, Cavender et al overview NMR and crystallographic experimental datasets that can be used to benchmark protein force fields, including best practices for setup and analysis of simulations!:
livecomsjournal.org/index.php/li...
#compchem
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In the latest @livecomsjournal.bsky.social
perpetual review, Cavender et al overview NMR and crystallographic experimental datasets that can be used to benchmark protein force fields, including best practices for setup and analysis of simulations!:
livecomsjournal.org/index.php/li...
#compchem
perpetual review, Cavender et al overview NMR and crystallographic experimental datasets that can be used to benchmark protein force fields, including best practices for setup and analysis of simulations!:
livecomsjournal.org/index.php/li...
#compchem
The behavior of a number of iterative projection algorithms for crystallographic phase retrieval is investigated #AbInitioPhaseDetermination #CrystallographicImaging #IterativeProjectionAlgorithms doi.org/10.1107/S205...
November 20, 2024 at 2:35 PM
The behavior of a number of iterative projection algorithms for crystallographic phase retrieval is investigated #AbInitioPhaseDetermination #CrystallographicImaging #IterativeProjectionAlgorithms doi.org/10.1107/S205...
My officemate Don Ngo always has the best conference-presentation attire! He also has the best R package for batch-processing crystallographic data, in case you were wondering 💎 #agu25
December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
My officemate Don Ngo always has the best conference-presentation attire! He also has the best R package for batch-processing crystallographic data, in case you were wondering 💎 #agu25
Nature research paper: Ultrahigh-pressure crystallographic passage towards metallic hydrogen
https://go.nature.com/3GXiXS2
https://go.nature.com/3GXiXS2
Ultrahigh-pressure crystallographic passage towards metallic hydrogen - Nature
The observation of the transition from hcp H2 to a post-hcp structure with a six-fold larger supercell at pressures above 212 GPa is reported, indicating the trend of H2 polymerization through molecular association.
go.nature.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Nature research paper: Ultrahigh-pressure crystallographic passage towards metallic hydrogen
https://go.nature.com/3GXiXS2
https://go.nature.com/3GXiXS2
Typical of crystallographic nonsense that pervades the internet.
March 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Typical of crystallographic nonsense that pervades the internet.
"Photo 51" was the X-ray diffraction pattern that revealed the internal structure of DNA, produced by PhD student Raymond Gosling working under Rosalind Franklin's direction at King's College in London in 1952.
Let's talk about how CORK & a PAPERCLIP played a central role in DNA's discovery.
Let's talk about how CORK & a PAPERCLIP played a central role in DNA's discovery.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"Photo 51" was the X-ray diffraction pattern that revealed the internal structure of DNA, produced by PhD student Raymond Gosling working under Rosalind Franklin's direction at King's College in London in 1952.
Let's talk about how CORK & a PAPERCLIP played a central role in DNA's discovery.
Let's talk about how CORK & a PAPERCLIP played a central role in DNA's discovery.