Dino Spagnoli (@dspagnoli) — Bluesky Profile

3 months ago

High-Pressure Crystallization and Compression of Isobutyronitrile The structural response of a high-pressure phase of isobutyronitrile up to 6.12 GPa was studied by using high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction, periodic density functional theory (DFT), and C...

New paper out, High-pressure crystallisation of Isobutyronitrile pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/..., nice results from the UWA and Synchrotron team that show this small molecule crystallises into the same structure as at low temperatures. There's some lovely calculations that explain why this may be.

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2 months ago

$A title image describing a recently publish scientific paper. The title is To help publicize your article, Crystal structure of diacetylene unveiled by X-ray and neutron diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and periodic DFT' and there is a brief description of the paper that reads 'The crystal structure and thermal expansion behaviour of diacetylene were determined via diffraction methods and supplemented by spectroscopic techniques. The similarities to acetylene's structure and implications for Titan in situ exploration are discussed.' There is also an image that depicts the crystal structure and its unit cell$

📢 One less molecular mystery - the crystal structure of diacetylene is solved, published in @iucrj.iucr.org today! Fantastic work by Larissa, and also I think will be the first structure deposit in @ccdc.cam.ac.uk from wombat! Read the OA paper here journals.iucr.org/m/issues/202...

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2 months ago

One more week to apply to work with me - trying to predict the crystals on Titan!

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7 months ago

Moon pic taken from Denmark, WA Australia on 11th July 2025

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1 year ago

Yes, please

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1 year ago

Beautiful day at Optus #cricket

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1 year ago

I never knew that the pea 🫛 plant produced such pretty flowers. #gardening

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1 year ago

#catsofbluesky tired cat

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1 year ago

The health of chemistry across the pipeline More students in the UK are studying chemistry at A-level than 20 years ago, but how does that translate to universities?

Hot on the heels of yesterday's news of Reading potentially closing its chemistry department, we've been looking at the past 20 years of data of A-level chemistry entrants, undergraduate chemistry numbers, and demography of university staff
www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...

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