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Woah! 😍

Signal Absent Despite Abundant Sample Spectroscopy 🥲

When you collaborate with proper organic chemists. #chemchat #chemsky

Meanwhile, me at the brink of tears when my dreamed-up 1-step material synthesis doesn't work by the fifth attempt. 🥵

Crystallographic Evidence of Size-Dependent Bond Flexibility in Metal–Organic Framework Nanocrystals Size-dependent electronic, magnetic, and optical behavior suggests that metal–organic frameworks become softer materials as their particle sizes decrease, but direct evidence is lacking. Here, we rep...

And another one is out: a crystallographic and fundamental solid-state study of size-dependent properties in porous materials. A fun adventure that required quite a bit of coding - learned a lot in the process!

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Nobody makes enemies by finishing their talk early…

On behalf of Sweden: cardamom buns!

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The ESRF User Organisation invites nominations for the 2026 Young Scientist Award.

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Turn-On Conductivity with Proton-Coupled Electron Transport in Metal–Organic Frameworks Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) has been studied for decades in the context of molecular reactivity, but its impact on long-range electron transport is barely understood. When defined broadly ...

Latest article is out: Studying mixed ionic-electronic conductivity in Metal–Organic Frameworks.

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AI is a bubble that is going to burst The industry has fostered a cult of personality that seems to leave the tech press starstruck and unquestioning of nonsensical claims

The more I reflect on the damage the AI bubble could wreak when it bursts, the angrier I get at the credulousness that has inflated it. Especially in the media, and especially the tech media, which often seems like an industry PR machine. My lastest column.
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Nope, just the plaque and a wooden staircase to get to the pit!

A plaque from the Ytterby mine, issued by ASM International, designating the former mine as a historical landmark.

It is just north of Stockholm University. Sadly it is little more than a small rocky pit, but there is a grassroots movement to build a museum (which they really should)! 👀 For now the only evidence of its history is just a little plaque:

Fingers crossed to not get 10 kcal 🫡

I had another fun opportunity talking about #MOFs this time on the Swedish kids news program Lilla Aktuellt with my colleague Mathias Nero! #NobelPrize

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Chewy! 😂🫣

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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...

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

b, depending on how extensive the reviews were 🧐

Woah, beatiful! Also: 😂

Oh, I am actually really curious now. I assume it is lower for triclinic? Unless there is a lot of cases where people have missed out on some symmetry. 😮

Somwhere between 0.5 - 1.5 %? 😅

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Keep this in mind when everything we do has to be PURPOSE driven. This is not how innovation works. It is often about curiosity. It can be silly.

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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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Interested in how surface layers can impact photocurrents from illuminated semiconductors? This is illustrated in MOF-coated semiconductor photoelectrodes.
Check it out, open access in @jacs.acspublications.org
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Woah, that sure is something... 😅

Not One of Your Easy Crystals

Getting a small-molecule crystal structure of a sixty-year-old drug should be no problem, right?