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Some say that #MOF were discovered in 1900s, but this figure from 1760s clearly show a crystal structure of a MOF with inclusion in pores. Look - metal centers, linkers, guest molecules, all in!

#MOF #chemsky #BraggYourPattern reporting from Portugal

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... and its beautiful #Fouriertransform, completing #specialdefects pair nr. 55 👾 Those who got a little used to how the Fourier space works might guess (correctly) that this looks essentially like the FFT of a single 12-pointed star ✍️ #BraggYourPattern #TotalScattering #Crystallography

Also @stecanossa.bsky.social I think you will prefer these ones I reconstructed from some synchrotron data - bonus points if you can guess the space group :) Check out the weak commensurate modulation #diffractionpattern #BraggYourPattern

As (mostly) Australians we also very much approve of @mofsoton.bsky.social's post! Big Merv energy!

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#BraggYourPattern | Montreal 2024

#Copenhagen #BraggYourPattern

Oooo - great archaeological #BraggYourPattern - thanks for the ping @kroekermartin.bsky.social ‬

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Advances in structural science: Education, outreach, and research applications A fundamental challenge for specialists in any field is communicating the importance and intricacies of their work to those outside of it. The 2024 Transactions

New paper out today, a really nice summary of structural science education and outreach project from around the globe, with a whole section on @braggyourpattern.bsky.social 😍

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Ready packaged crystal explorer kits ready to be distributed to schools

A map of Australia and NZ, showing pins across the region where primary schools have signed up for a Crystal Explorer kit

There are now boxes of #CrystalExplorer kits ready to go, a FREE resource for Primary Schools in Australia and NZ. We're targeting regional and remote schools (so far reaching from Tom Price to the Chatham Islands), head to BraggYourPattern.com to sign up for one

A box that is open with the lid to one side, inside the box is a booklet that is titled 'Crystal explorer Kit' and the lid has a sticker with the same title and an amusing picture of Sir William Lawrence Bragg

Details of the inside of the crystal explorer kit, showing the atoms and bonds as well as an inside spread of the crystal explorer booklet (on the page talking about Lonsdaleite)

Shows 6 boxes on trolley, with a box on top on one of the trolleys. The boxes are full of packaged up crystal explorer kits, so off to travel thousands of kilometres!

The first 50 Crystal Explorer Kits are packaged and off to the post office! Long day yesterday getting the sets finalised, but very exciting to get the first lot out of the door.

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I hope you enjoyed my little #tiling voyage a few weeks ago 😊 Now you can admire some of the protagonists in this contribution to @iucrj.iucr.org Newsletter, along with some thoughts inspired by me being an irredeemable #PatternSeeker ❄️

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A simple tiling of light brown-red octagons joined, in their corners, by tilted dark green smaller tiles.

Where did we leave off... #MEDPore2025 #tiling nr. 13 (Bahia palace, Marrakech): simple structure, but with such an elegant terracotta-emerald colour match 😌 #crystallography #BraggYourPattern

Snapshot from google maps showing mainly Australia and New Zealand. There are 52 pins showing the locations of primary schools that have signed up for a crystal explorer kit.

Week 2 of sign ups for our #CrystalExplorerKits going to primary school and we are containing to do well in covering regional and remote Australia/New Zealand!

A fabric with interwoven black and white threads, forming chaotic patterns that however have a systematic preference for diagonal homogeneity

Sneaky correlated disorder in the fabric of Danish train seats... Must have been a choice, and I totally agree 🙂‍↕️ #CasualDisorder #Crystallography #BraggYourPattern #TotalScattering

Curious and yet mesmerising! #BraggYourPattern

Image of the large diamond model

We're currently reaching out to schools via email and facebook group - but any contacts very welcome! Drop us a DM if you are from a regional or remote primary school in Aus and NZ and would like this free resource!
[Photo credit Jun Aisima]

A map of Australia and New Zealand with blue dots that indicate where school have signed up to receive the Crystal Explorer kits

We've made a teaching booklet to explain how to make four structures with the sets, and plans for more on the website (BraggYourPattern.com), we are now aiming to send these kits out to Primary (elementary) Schools in regional and remote parts of Aus and NZ. 15 sign ups already!

image of a crystal model kit box, with the contents displayed. Inside the box there are two packets, one of black atoms and one of grey bonds

A green wheelie bin that is full of black atoms for the model sets, underneath the bin there are cardboard boxes full of grey bonds.

Image of a blister on someones thumb from removing all the the grey bonds from the black atoms for the crystal structure kits

The structure took many days to put together, and a small amount of time to tear apart. But that was not the end - the structure has now painstakingly separated into atoms and bonds and put into ~750 Crystal Explorer Kits
[Image credit to @rosieyoung.bsky.social and @sbattenresearch.bsky.social]

An image of a large diamond crystal structure model with a large sign on the top of it

A group of people sat around the giant diamond structure

detail of someone putting together the giant diamond structure

Many in the #Crystallography community will remember this (and may have helped put part of it together). Our record breaking diamond structure built at the 2023 IUCr congress in Melbourne
[Photo credit Jun Aishima]

- Do you what a tiling with symmetry elements?
- Yes.
- Which motif?
- Yes.

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image of the front cover of a booklet, with the title 'Crystal Explorer Kit'. The cover has images of connected atoms and logos from project supporters SCANZ and ANSTO

Not to 'Bragg' but we have a VERY exciting project brewing and looking forward to getting the word out. Our crystal explorer kits are nearly ready for launch. Check back on Monday to find out more.... #BraggYourPattern

A tiling of large marble squares separated by stripes composed of much smaller, regular green tiles.

#MEDPore2025 #tiling nr. 10 (Bahia palace, Marrakech): can I call this 'mesotiling'? I believe so... Another elegant P4m #crystallography #BraggYourPattern

An square grid of coloured square tiles spaced by octagonal terracotta-colour ones. The colour of the square tiles is homogeneous vertically, but changes every two rows, from left to right (brown, brown, white, white, blue, blue, white, white, green, green, white...)

#MEDPore2025 #tiling nr. 15 (Bahia palace, Marrakech): I guess this counts as solid solution... or stacking disorder #Crystallography #BraggYourPattern

Ruins of Orval Abbey

Samples of tiles made by cistercians.

Tiling of the floor in Orval Abbey.

We (accidentally) visited Orval Abbey in south of Belgium, and we found that apparently cistercians are/were known for tiles (also for certain beverages and dairy products).

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Book cover titled Atlas of Fourier Transforms with a picture of a star shaped pattern of dots

Pages of a book with "Set 29- Quasi Periodic Crystals" on one page and pictures of patterns on the other

Just recieved my Atlas of Fourier Transforms that I backed on kickstarter last year. It might be the most beautiful book I own 😍🥰💎
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