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👉 PhD Admissions Open at The Department of Chemistry @iitjodhpur For ongoing research areas lnkd.in/dqfwKqrv Candidates interested in the design of small molecules and their supramolecular behaviour/applications or peptide chemistry, write to me 👉hemak@iitj.ac.in.

@sruthihemak @iitjodhpur @SureshanLab @rafalklajn Congrats, Hema!

Happy to share that I joined @iitjodhpur as Assistant Professor. I am grateful for the guidance and support from @SureshanLab @rafalklajn and Ulijn lab throughout the journey.

We are delighted to announce that our Durga Prasad Karothu @DP20907127 has been appointed to the Advisory Board of Crystal Growth & Design @CGD_ACS, published by @ACSPublications. A tremendous achievement and well-deserved recognition of his significant contributions. Congrats!

TOMORROW IS THE DAY ❄️ Tomorrow is your FINAL chance. Registration is not required to submit papers IUCr2026 abstract submissions close February 22 at 11:59 PM ET. No extensions. No registration required. 👉 event.fourwaves.com/iucr-2026/subm… #IUCR #IUCR2026 #crystallography

Applications are OPEN for our 2026 @NSF funded IRES program. Spend 10 weeks performing research on dynamic crystals in beautiful Italy, all expenses paid! Must be a US citizen/perm. resident to apply. Please share widely! @UofR @URochesterChem @LucaCataz sas.rochester.edu/chm/undergradu…

Just posted @ChemRxiv - we move from MOFs to COFs, with a slew of cool techniques that explain why a modified version of COF-300 can form a closed-pore structure. Great work from a new collaboration with @aet_ice and @rigaku. @LucaCataz @URochesterChem chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

We are delighted to see our work on ultrastiff organic crystals receiving attention. It has now been highlighted in Chemistry World: @NYUAbuDhabi chemistryworld.com/news/stiffest-…

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Excited about this one! We leveraged our understanding of lattice dynamics and resulting polymorphic transformations to purposefully design dynamic molecular solids. Great team effort @LucaCataz @URochesterChem @UofR @ChemRxiv chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

The stiffest organic crystal of all—Organic crystals are typically considered soft and brittle, but recent examples show that certain structural characteristics can make some organic crystals exceptionally hard. Check out our new publication in @ChemicalScience, where we report that the crystals of mucic (galactaric) acid have now set a new standard for the stiffest organic crystal ever reported! In one crystallographic direction, the Young’s modulus of these crystals is 50.25 GPa, a value that surpasses some metals, including tin and magnesium. Congratulations to @DP20907127, @LucaCataz, @SPGuerin and the other authors! Thanks to @NYUAbuDhabi @NYUADResearch. Read more about these ultrastiff crystals here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

🧩 From molecules to mobility! ⚡Our new study shows how steric design and weak forces steer crystal packing in oligorylenes – boosting charge transport 🚀 Open access here 👇 doi.org/10.1021/acs.cg…

2024 #NobelPrize laureate in chemistry David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. In recent years, one incredible protein creation after the other has emerged from Baker’s laboratory. They range from new nanomaterials where up to 120 proteins spontaneously link together (see animation) to proteins that function as a type of molecular rotor. Who will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year? We will find out on 8 October. Animation: ©Terezia Kovalova/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

This paper is very cool - might be the coolest result of my career. We bent a flexible crystal, did some low-frequency confocal spectroscopy, and directly visualized intermolecular strain spectroscopically. @UofR @ChemRxiv @LucaCataz @URochesterChem chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Group members Will Stoll and Johanna Kölbel crushed their talks at #IRMMW2025 today in Helsinki. Great work team! @UofR @URochesterChem

Check out our most recent article in @JMaterChem C, which was just featured on the journal front cover! Great work to the team, collaborative between @UofR @URochesterChem, @riken_en, and @UNIMORE_univ @LucaCataz. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

@ivana_brekalo @UNIMORE_univ @UofR @RigakuOxfordXRD Lol! The perspective of 2 days playing with electron diffraction gave me the power!

@LucaCataz @UNIMORE_univ @UofR @RigakuOxfordXRD Wait, please tell me you didn't travel to Germany right after Mexico? 😱 I'm STILL jetlagged, I don't know how you do it...

It was fun! So many results in a couple of days @UNIMORE_univ @UofR @RigakuOxfordXRD thanks for having us!

Playing with new toys in Germany @rigaku @RigakuOxfordXRD. Looking forward to seeing some cool new crystal structures! #3DED @UofR @URochesterChem

Back from the XXVI International Conference on Organic Solid State in Playa del Carmen 🇲🇽, where I gave an invited talk on dynamic crystals! Grateful for the inspiring science & great community. Thanks to @MolinaGroup , @migarciagaribay & the amazing team behind the scenes!