Wojtek Stawski

I noticed that recently these kind of ciecular diagrams got very popular as TOCs; however, not sure if it’s just me but I find them completely non-readable and when I see them I immediately skip the article 😅😅😅 Random example attached

It’s my new crystal baby😊

Well, a crystal structure of one the cyclocarbons alone would probably make quite a high-impact paper 😅

Weekend in Albania 🇦🇱

Yeah, maybe it’s so well separated that it doesn’t change much…. Here’s a look at the Ewald sphere. It says that the two domauns are related by 177deg rotation so maybe more of a split crystal rather than a proper twin? No idea, don’t have much experience with twinning cases

Struggling with a terrible twin refinement. Everything looks OK during processing and when adding data from second component to the refinement it just doesn’t change almost anything in the R values… 😓 And the dataset is quite good, with nicely separated reflections! #crystallography

Picked a big boy today. Not bad for something with molecular mass of 2500 😌

Diffraction spots

Action: retraction 😋

Large number of stuff I’m crystallizing now works only in tetrachloroethane. Had some terrible disorder with it. After two days of playing with it decided to push the SQUEEZE button ☠️

7h HSQC on a compound that gives signals with height half of the solvent’s 13C satellites and it looks good! 😌

Poor water 😢

… and here the Team Ulm @uniulm.bsky.social risking their own (dry) lifes at #ISMSC2025

A cute photo of the Esser lab @besserchemistry.bsky.social representation at #ISMSC2025 in Kyoto

My research during the 1st year of PhD:

Effects of Metal Intercalation on the Optoelectronic Behavior and Aromatic Stability of Bilayer Heterostructures of [18]Annulene and Corannulene This study systematically investigates the geometric configurations, electronic properties, binding energies, thermal stability, optoelectronic charac…

Someone decided to do a theoretical study on our [18]annulene sandwiches! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Okay that’s one nice looking column! I wonder what is the violet thingie 👀

Fingers crossed for Justyna Steczkowska! I wasn't really following Eurovision in the previous years but they finally chose someone who can actually sing! 🇵🇱 #Eurovision2025

It's a routinely generated thing but feels nice anyway. Btw i really enjoy peer-reviewing manuscripts so you know, Editors 👀

That crystal looks rather hot 🥵

Cute little goosie

It’s not refinement, it’s creating a nice picture 😅

Congratulations! I’m wondering whether you could observe full conversion if you used stronger radiation source such as synchrotron and a smaller crystal or that would just kill the crystal as a whole 😅

A small adventure by the Baltic Sea in Poland, I even managed to find a relatively rare jellyfish (cyanea capillata)! 🪼

I actually look at them quite often during the process. Can diagnose what’s the problem or stop and start again when shitty powder appears to not waste time 😇

Side-by-side photographs, the left showing three people stood smiling at the camera with the middle person holding up a certificate, the right showing a presenter pointing to research on a projector screen.

Congratulations to Wojciech Stawski from Ulm University for winning the CCDC/CCG Prize 2025, announced this afternoon at the @crystallography.org.uk Spring Meeting.

Discover more about Wojciech Stawski's ground-breaking work here: ccdc-info.com/4imVWF3

#Crystallography #BCA25

Thank you Stefano!

Extremely happy to have been awarded a CCDC Young Crystallographer Prize @crystallography.org.uk @ccdc.cam.ac.uk Again, a big thank you to all who made it possible, particularly those shown in the slide.

Awww thank you for sharing!

Thanks ❤️