An AI-generated 3D metamaterial structure

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Collaborative Travel Fund 2025 – Round 2 – aichemy The AIchemy Collaborative Travel Fund will support academics and research staff to undertake short-term, collaborative activities that bridge the gap between AI and chemistry. The fund aims to foster…

🚨 Collaborative Travel Fund 2025 – Round 2 is now open!

Supporting short-term collaborative visits that bridge the gap between AI and chemistry in the UK or internationally🌍.

Up to £7,500 per applicant
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A large crystal structure model of Y1/3TaO3 in a 12x12x2 expansion

How could you not love #crystallography? An approximation of the incommensurate structure of Y⅓TaO₃ #ChemSky arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01241

I’m excited to join the IUCr Early Career Board for Acta Cryst. A, J. Appl. Cryst., and J. Synchrotron Rad. 💎🌐

Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the crystallography community through meaningful scientific exchange!

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Honored that our paper “Up–down approach for expanding the chemical space of MOFs” is featured in Nature Portfolio’s Collection celebrating the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry🏵🎊

Excited to see how MOF chemistry continues to evolve, and honored to be part of its journey✨
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A collection of bright yellow spots starts from the centre of the picture, from the strongest, central one. Clearly not periodically arranged, they have a point-symmetry evident since 4 equally spaced lines of stronger spots irradiate from the centre of the image. Between them, additional smaller spots form geometrical patterns vaguely resembling the fourier transform of an aperiodic crystal. The background colour alternate dark blue and soft teal, whose calm feeling contrasts the energy present in the bright yellow spots, looking like tiny fireflies.

My fellow #FourierTransform enthusiasts, here's a new entry in my collection ready for you, nr. 56! The real-space picture is an intersection of two tilings of squares, one tilted by 43°. Moiré pattern? Definitely related 💯

As always, you can find the high-res pair at behance.net/specialdefects

Thank you, Stefano! 🌟 So happy to finally join and see familiar faces here. BlueSky already feels brighter with such welcoming energy — looking forward to sharing more #MOFs stories together!

We interrupt our regular programming to announce…

A Nobel medal

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
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Large moiré superstructure of stacked incommensurate charge density waves - Nature Materials The authors identify two coexisting incommensurate charge density waves whose interplay leads to joint commensuration and a long-period moiré structure.

Just out!

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Fluidic Actuation in a 2D Metal–Organic Framework dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-4...