Stuart Batten
@sbattenresearch.bsky.social
Inorganic chemist, crystallomancer, dad. Making MOFs since before they were called MOFs. Check out http://BraggYourPattern.com & http://elementsets.net.
This is who the next element on the periodic table needs to be named after.
Today we remember Henry Moseley, the Oxford physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy work reshaped our understanding of the elements. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, aged just 27.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This is who the next element on the periodic table needs to be named after.
I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/...
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
Symmetry groups wrapping paper
You may have heard mathematicians say that there are only 17 types of wallpaper. Which is a shorthand way of saying, if you print a repeating pattern, it will definitely have 1 of only 17 possible sym...
mathsgear.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
A bit of an #outreach win today - orders from Flinders Island, a remote island off the coast of Tasmania, for both a Crystal Explorer Kit (for their primary students) and an Elements Set (for their secondary students)! #elementsets #crystallography #ozchem #BraggYourPattern
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A bit of an #outreach win today - orders from Flinders Island, a remote island off the coast of Tasmania, for both a Crystal Explorer Kit (for their primary students) and an Elements Set (for their secondary students)! #elementsets #crystallography #ozchem #BraggYourPattern
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We measured the percentage of drivers who waved us while driving across a desert, and extrapolated some findings about vehicle choice and personal fulfilment.
PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/fingering
PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/fingering
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 AM
We measured the percentage of drivers who waved us while driving across a desert, and extrapolated some findings about vehicle choice and personal fulfilment.
PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/fingering
PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/fingering
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Just dropped!
A virtual collection from #AustJChem celebrating Nobel Laureate Professor Richard Robson, pioneer of MOFs.
Explore 60 years of his groundbreaking work, free to read until 27 Feb 2026. @csiropublishing.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social
connectsci.au/ch/collectio...
A virtual collection from #AustJChem celebrating Nobel Laureate Professor Richard Robson, pioneer of MOFs.
Explore 60 years of his groundbreaking work, free to read until 27 Feb 2026. @csiropublishing.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social
connectsci.au/ch/collectio...
The Foundations of a Nobel Prize: Richard Robson | Australian Journal of Chemistry | ConnectSci
connectsci.au
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Just dropped!
A virtual collection from #AustJChem celebrating Nobel Laureate Professor Richard Robson, pioneer of MOFs.
Explore 60 years of his groundbreaking work, free to read until 27 Feb 2026. @csiropublishing.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social
connectsci.au/ch/collectio...
A virtual collection from #AustJChem celebrating Nobel Laureate Professor Richard Robson, pioneer of MOFs.
Explore 60 years of his groundbreaking work, free to read until 27 Feb 2026. @csiropublishing.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social
connectsci.au/ch/collectio...
Reposted by Stuart Batten
MOFs have been celebrated as a suitably chemical discovery to win the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry. But what makes a scientific breakthrough truly chemical?
What makes a scientific breakthrough truly chemical?
Why MOFs are a great choice for the Nobel prize in chemistry
www.chemistryworld.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
MOFs have been celebrated as a suitably chemical discovery to win the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry. But what makes a scientific breakthrough truly chemical?
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Third and final day! Refinements, cifs and lots of delicious food 🍰Congratulations to the brilliant flash talks winners! Now time to sleep 😴
October 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Third and final day! Refinements, cifs and lots of delicious food 🍰Congratulations to the brilliant flash talks winners! Now time to sleep 😴
Before Richard Robson created the field of MOFs, he created what are now known as "Robson macrocycles", probably the first binucleating and tetranucleating (terms he invented) macrocycles. To create one field of chemistry is amazing, but to create two new kinds of chemistry across a career....
(1/3) This 1970 paper showcases the early brilliance of Richard Robson's work on macrocyclic binucleating ligands - foundational research contributing to the revolution in coordination chemistry and materials design.
October 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Before Richard Robson created the field of MOFs, he created what are now known as "Robson macrocycles", probably the first binucleating and tetranucleating (terms he invented) macrocycles. To create one field of chemistry is amazing, but to create two new kinds of chemistry across a career....
Reposted by Stuart Batten
Julia Robinson spoke to Stuart Batten – Richard Robson's first PhD student to work on coordination polymers – and also had the pleasure of discussing the award-winning work behind this year's Nobel prize with none other than Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa.
How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize
From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry
www.chemistryworld.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Julia Robinson spoke to Stuart Batten – Richard Robson's first PhD student to work on coordination polymers – and also had the pleasure of discussing the award-winning work behind this year's Nobel prize with none other than Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa.
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A proud moment for Australian science!
We were honoured to celebrate Prof Robson’s remarkable achievements in our 2019 Special Collection, and are thrilled to see him now recognised with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! #AustJChem
Which you can revisit here:
www.publish.csiro.au/CH/issue/9431
We were honoured to celebrate Prof Robson’s remarkable achievements in our 2019 Special Collection, and are thrilled to see him now recognised with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! #AustJChem
Which you can revisit here:
www.publish.csiro.au/CH/issue/9431
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October 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A proud moment for Australian science!
We were honoured to celebrate Prof Robson’s remarkable achievements in our 2019 Special Collection, and are thrilled to see him now recognised with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! #AustJChem
Which you can revisit here:
www.publish.csiro.au/CH/issue/9431
We were honoured to celebrate Prof Robson’s remarkable achievements in our 2019 Special Collection, and are thrilled to see him now recognised with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! #AustJChem
Which you can revisit here:
www.publish.csiro.au/CH/issue/9431
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Workshop day 2: splitting into protein and chemical crystallography streams, beamline practicals and beautiful weather for a bbq 🌞 Also 40 absolutely brilliant flash talks in 40 min- astounded by all the amazing science people are doing! 💎👩🔬🧪
October 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Workshop day 2: splitting into protein and chemical crystallography streams, beamline practicals and beautiful weather for a bbq 🌞 Also 40 absolutely brilliant flash talks in 40 min- astounded by all the amazing science people are doing! 💎👩🔬🧪
Reposted by Stuart Batten
Happy to share this little tutorial review:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystals #flexible #chemistry
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystals #flexible #chemistry
Identifying and Characterising Flexible Crystals
Mechanically flexible single crystals are emerging as a useful class of materials due to their unique combination of crystallinity and molecular-scale responses to applied mechanical stress. In this t...
pubs.rsc.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Happy to share this little tutorial review:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystals #flexible #chemistry
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystals #flexible #chemistry
Tétraèdre de Sierpinski fabriqué par les enfants et leurs parents en visite sur le stand de #Maths. Check 👍 #fractale #nice06
#fds2025 #fds #fetedelascience @cnrs-insmi.bsky.social @univcotedazur.bsky.social @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social
#fds2025 #fds #fetedelascience @cnrs-insmi.bsky.social @univcotedazur.bsky.social @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Day one of our 2025 Crystallography Workshop! Featuring a special pop-up talk from @sbattenresearch.bsky.social about this year's chemistry Nobel Prize, and outreach training where everyone could make their own lolly crystal structure 🍭💎 @crystallised-cricket.com #BraggYourPattern #OzChem
October 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Day one of our 2025 Crystallography Workshop! Featuring a special pop-up talk from @sbattenresearch.bsky.social about this year's chemistry Nobel Prize, and outreach training where everyone could make their own lolly crystal structure 🍭💎 @crystallised-cricket.com #BraggYourPattern #OzChem
Richard would always pop into the lab to see how our reactions were going. He’d take anything that was promising across to the door to the sunlight to peer at it with a hand lens, followed by “I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Stuart”.
I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Derek.
I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Derek.
I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Richard would always pop into the lab to see how our reactions were going. He’d take anything that was promising across to the door to the sunlight to peer at it with a hand lens, followed by “I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Stuart”.
I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Derek.
I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Derek.
😍
Here’s one of those copper MOF crystals mounted on an x-ray diffraction loop sample holder:
October 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:
October 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:
Oh, I just realised that I've actually published with two of the three 2025 Nobel Prize winners. How did this not occur to me before? Should I try for the complete set?
🧪 "MOFs" or "Coordination Polymers"? Interested in the terminology behind this year's Chemistry #NobelPrize? Read this paper by Lars Öhrström, with coworkers including winner Susumu Kitagawa. Cited in the Scientific Background to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: doi.org/10.1039/C2CE...
Coordination polymers, metal–organic frameworks and the need for terminology guidelines
Coordination polymers (CPs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are among the most prolific research areas of inorganic chemistry and crystal engineering in the last 15 years, and yet it still seems t...
doi.org
October 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Oh, I just realised that I've actually published with two of the three 2025 Nobel Prize winners. How did this not occur to me before? Should I try for the complete set?
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three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I and many others will be on the panel for this, so do tune in. It will be 1am Saturday morning Australian time, so it will be a challenge for us #ozchem panelists, but it should be an interesting chat after a whirlwind few days.
Have you signed up to watch our webinar yet? This Friday, we'll welcome a handful of experts to join us at 3pm BST for an exciting and spontaneous webinar. If chemistry is your thing, you will not want to miss this!
Nobel prize in chemistry 2025: Reaction
Join us for an exclusive look at the Nobel in chemistry 2025 prize-winning science - make sure you're there on 10 October
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October 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I and many others will be on the panel for this, so do tune in. It will be 1am Saturday morning Australian time, so it will be a challenge for us #ozchem panelists, but it should be an interesting chat after a whirlwind few days.
Hard to have a big ego in Australia. I mentioned to my hairdresser that my old boss just won the #NobelPrize. "Oh, that's nice", then proceeded to talk about much more important things, like how they weren't very busy, the weather, looks like a lot of folk will be gardening this weekend. 😂
October 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Hard to have a big ego in Australia. I mentioned to my hairdresser that my old boss just won the #NobelPrize. "Oh, that's nice", then proceeded to talk about much more important things, like how they weren't very busy, the weather, looks like a lot of folk will be gardening this weekend. 😂
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October 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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This year's Nobel - commentary and background, with a few more bonus MOF pictures of my own:
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Metal-Organic Frameworks
www.science.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This year's Nobel - commentary and background, with a few more bonus MOF pictures of my own: