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• Rock salt: the structure that started it all - 1st January
• HKUST 1: the Structure of empty space - 3rd January
• Sulfuric acid hexahydrate: a material for another world - 4th January
• Ice Ih: Snow joke, January's Ice structure - 6th January
• Ethanol: Happy New Year Hangover - 8th January
• Garnet: Structure of January's birthstone - 10th January
• Catenane: Tales from a PhD, synthesising a catenane - 11th January
• Sucrose: Sweet crystallography - 12th January
• Quartz: Dear Indi - let me in next time!!! - 14th January
• Type-II Bi2O3.Nb2O5: Conducting heat with a very complicated structure - 15th January
• Gold: The crystal structure of success - 17th January
• Methane hydrate I: Fire ice - 18th January
• Graphite: the makings of the future? - 19th January
• Pyroxferroite: a Mineral that came down to Earth - 20th January
• Gypsum: The 'desert rose' crystal - 21st January
• Calcium titanate: the First perovskite - 22nd January
• Tungsten(VI) Oxide: WOOO - 23rd January
• Urea: You must be taking the XXXX - 24th January
• Buckminsterfullerene: a.k.a. Buckyballs a.k.a. C60 - 25th January
• Brucite: a mineral for Australia day - 26th January
• Lonsdaleite: Kathleen Lonsdale and her mineral - 28th January
• Gadolinium Titanates: Certainly not a typical material - 29th January
• Lanthanum Barium Copper Oxide: Resistance is futile - 30th January
• Lithium titanate: Spinning around with Spinels - 31st January
• Amethyst: February's Birthstone - 1st February
• Prussian Blue: Are you feeling blue? - 2nd February
• Polonium: crystal structure with an element of surprise - 5th February
• Talc: a crystal for after a shower - 6th February
• Aspirin: A headache of a crystal structure - 7th February
• Ice IX: Stranger than fiction - 8th February
• Muscovite: You can see through it - 9th February
• Picric acid: Less than mellow yellow - 10th February
• Lithium lanthanum titanate, Super fast ions, solid ion conductor - 11th February
• Methamphetamine: Not another ice structure - 12th February
• Yttrium barium copper oxide: Superconductivity heats up - 13th February
• Deamino-oxytocin: Roses are red, violets are blue. Oxytocin makes me only want to be with you - 14th February
• gamma-RDX: Danger danger! A high-pressure explosive - 15th February
• Pyrite: the structure of Fool's Gold - 16th February
• Calcite: Seeing Double - 17th February
• HgBaCaCuO: How high is high for a high-temperature superconductor? - 18th February
• Zircon: the Crystal structure, how old? - 20th February
• White phosphorous: A strange and dangerous glow - 21st February
• *Hydrogen: The chemical bond is stronger than we could have imagined - 22nd February
• LaOFeP: Getting pernickety about the 1st pnictide superconductor - 24th February
• Sildenafil Citrate: This is a Hard One - 25th February
• Lanthanum hexaboride: Purple standards - 26th February
• Polyethylene: Plastic fantastic - 27th February
• Hematite: a structure determined by Linus Pauling - 28th February
• Ice VI: Square snowflakes, the structure - 2nd March
• Aquamarine: March's Birthstone - 3rd March
• Adamantane: rigidity in carbon and hydrogen - 4th March
• Brownmillerite: Organize your oxygen with SrCoO2.5 - 5th March
• Citric acid: the sour in the sweet - 6th March
• Sphalerite: Classical crystal structures - 7th March
• Wurtzite: Classical crystal structures - 8th March
• Caesium chloride: Classical crystal structures - 9th March
• Astaxanthin: Colour me beautiful - 12th March
• Hydrochloric acid: It is sitting in your stomach - 13th March
• Keggin ions: The structure of a heteropoly acid - 14th March
• Potassium Bitartrate: Something for the weekend - 15th March
• Acemetacin co-crystals: Making a drug work smarter - 16th March
• a Clerodane diterpenoid: Something to help you with the snakes? - 17th March
• Alite: It's in the walls - 18th March
• Red Oxygen: the crystal structure rainbow - 19th March
• Orange crocoite: the crystal structure rainbow - 20th March
• Sulfur (S10): the crystal structure rainbow - 21st March
• Azurite: I'm blue da-ba-di da-ba dah, the natural mineral - 23rd March
• 5,5'-indigodisulfonic acid sodium salt: crystal structure rainbow, Indigo in your batteries? - 25th March
• Imperial violet: the crystal structure rainbow - 26th March
• Potassium: a celebration of x-rays, Roentgenium - 27th March
• Manganese oxide: Spins and arrows, the magnetic story of MnO - 28th March
• Uvarovite: a very rare gem - 29th March
• Andersonite: The crystal structure rainbow - Glowing in UV - 30th March
• Braggite: Celebrating one of the founders of the field 31st March
• Rare earth magnets: how crystallography can help you stay attractive - 2nd April
• Magnetic Thulium: Moments align in seven - 4th April
• Chrysotile: Deadly crystal structures - 5th April
• Arsenopyrite: Deadly crystal structures - 6th April
• Calaverite: Kalgoorlie where the streets are paved with gold - 7th April
• Diamond: April Birthstone, unlucky for some - 8th April
• LixCoO2: the Breakout battery hit - 9th April
• Jarosite: Hero and a villain - 10th April
• Potassium Cyanide: Murder most foul - 11th April
• Cubic ice: Does it exist or not? - 12th April
• Galena: Hearing radio waves - 13th April
• Mercury(II) Fulminate: An explosive result - 14th April
• Xenotime: X is for - 16th April
• Feldspar: What is our planet made out of? #1 -18th April
• Olivine: What is our planet made out of? #2 - 19th April
• Wadsleyite: What is our planet made out of? #3 - 20th April
• Ringwoodite: What is our planet made out of? #4 - 21st April
• Silicate perovskite: What is our planet made out of? #5 - 22nd April
• Magnesiowustite: What is our planet made out of? #6 - 23rd April
• Silicate post-perovskite: What is our planet made out of? #7 -24th April
• Hcp Iron: What is our planet made out of? #8 - 25th April
• Epsomite: Bath salts on the moons of Jupiter - 26th April
• Phenol: A small molecule that has saved a lot of lives - 27th April
• Diazepam: Don't panic, Valium - 28th April
• LiFePO4: the Unexpected battery success story - 29th April
• beta-Uranium: Another strange element - 30th April
• Mullite: Something to mull on - 1st May
• Tb2Ti2O7: Magnetic monopoles in the pyrochlore lattice - 2nd May
• Gramicidin S: From crystallography, to running the country - 3rd May
• SmCo magnets: May the 4th be with you - 4th May
• PbTiO3/SrTiO: It's a bird, it's a plane, its a Superlattice! - 5 May
• Barium: Elements under pressure - 6th May
• Square planar ferrites: sneaking up on unlikely atomic geometries - 7th May
• Mirabilite: "The Miracle Salt" - 8th May
• ThCr2Si2: Giving it the old 1-2-2 - 9th May
• Methane A: Methane under pressure - 11th May
• Vitamin B12: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and the structure - 12th May
• Gallium: out of the box - 13th May
• Putnisite: Brand new and completely unique - 14th May
• Gd5Si2Ge2: Magneto gets cooler - 16th May
• Peperine: a Peppery crystal structure - 17th May
• Ammonium perchlorate: This is rocket science - 18th May
• Silicon: an Element that is everywhere! - 20th May
• 2,3,6,7,10,11-Hexahydroxytriphenylene: Confining water, the structure of HHTP tetrahydrate - 22nd May
• Emerald: May's Birthstone, Could you actually build an Emerald city? - 23rd May
• alpha-Cristobalite: Same... but different - 24th May
• beta-Cristobalite: Same... but different - 25th May
• *MIL-143: the Big-brother (ir)regular beta-cristobalite - 26th May
• Selenite: Crystal cathedrals - 28th May
• Polyrotaxane: Getting in a twist - 29th May
• Nickel Sulphate hexahydrate: Crystals you can grow at home - 30th May
• Paracetamol: an elusive polymorph - 31st May
• Megawite: a Specially named perovskite - 1st June
• Lithium isonicotinate.solvate: Absorbing gas - 2nd June
• Labradorite: a play on colours - 3rd June
• Iolite: the two-coloured rock - 4th June
• Penicillin: D-Day - 6th June
• Ice III: in Ganymede - 7th June
• Lactose: Not for the intolerant - 8th June
• beta-Carotene: Helps you see in the dark - 9th June
• L-ascorbic: Important for this time of year, vitamin C - 10th June
• Iron(II) sulfate heptahydrate: Lacking in iron? - 11th June
• Acetic acid: Vinegar - 12th June
• Sodium acetate: a food preservative - 13th June
• Cocoa butter form VI: the chocolate you don't want - 14th June
• Ethyl Maltol: Molecular cotton candy - 15th June
• Capsaicin: some Like It Hot - 16th June
• Hydroxylapatite: a crystal structure you eat with! - 19th June
• Tobermorite: Sounds edible, but isn't - 22nd June
• An Edible Metal-Organic Framework: Porosity on your plate - 23rd June
• Sodium vanadium fluorophosphates: A bit of a mouthful, Na3V2O2x(PO4)2F3-2x - 24th June
• Bismuth: Bi George - 25th June
• Aragonite: June birthstone, Pearl - 27th June
• Ethane: an extra-terrestrial hydrocarbon - 28th June
• Benzene: a ring of progress - 29th June
• Ruby: the birthstone of July - 1st July
• Fluorite: a mineral of history - 2nd July
• Bowieite: an exclusive mineral - 5th July
• Painite: a formally very exclusive mineral - 6th July
• *Brownmillerites: Ordering matters, not all are created equal - 7th July
• Bridgmanite: What's in a name? - 8th July
• Rutile: What is the Rutile structure? - 9th July
• Iridium Oxide: Common structure, but rare material - 10th July
• Cryptomelane: a mineral often mistaken for a fossil - 11th July
• Germanite: a world cup inspired post - 12th July
• Argentite: a world cup inspired post - 13th July
• Lead zirconium titanate: A material that could help keep your heart going - 16th July
• Stearic acid: Time to scrub things up - 17th July
• Molybdenum: the building block of nuclear medicine - 18th July
• *Ice X: the extreme form of ice 19th July
• Nickel sulfide: a smashing crystal structure - 20th July
• Naphthalene: Ring ring! - 21st July
• Carpathite: an aromatic mineral - 22nd July
• Quinine: a molecule from trees - 26th July
• Eugenyl acetate: Adapting a plant-based molecule - 27th July
• (NMePent3)6Na8[Cu6(ctc)4]I2.solvate: A diamond net of molecular tetrahedra - 29th July
• Meridianiite: An Earth and Mars mineral - 30th July
• MIL-53: Flexible Framework, it Breathes but isn't alive - 31st July
• Hexamethylenetetramine: a bit of a mouthful - 2nd August
• Glucose: Sweet as.. - 3rd August
• Triglycine Sulphate: Ferroelectic, pyroelectric, bolometric - 4th August
• Brownleeite: A mineral from interplanetary dust - 5th August
• Pyroelectric lithium niobate: Crystals of temperature and electricity - 7th August
• Goethite: Raw mineral of a legend - 8th August
• Ammonia: Feeding the world - 9th August
• Boron Nitride: Superhard and superstrong - 10th August
• Ruddlesden-Popper Structures: Let's get popping! - 11th August
• Copper Tetracyanotetraphenylmethane Tetrafluoroborate: Crystals by design - 13th August
• *Manganese Nickel: Not going anywhere, low expansion alloys - 14th August
• Zinc cyanide: the beauty within - 15th August
• Magnesium Oxide: Bright spark - 16th August
• Methandrostenolone: Hasta la Vista, Babies - 19th August
• Eucalyptus Oil: Perfect for the cold and 'flu season - 20th August
• Cobalt tricyanomethanide: Five fold - 21st August
• Peridot: August Birthstone - 22nd August
• Diopside: A surprisingly important structure - 23rd August
• SiGe alloys: Powering Voyager - 24th August
• Nanoballs: synthesis for the lazy - 26th August
• Bath structure: Light reactions - 27th August
• Copper sulfate pentahydrate: Do try this in your own home! - 28th August
• Octapi Catenane: What's in a name? - 29th August
• Ice II: Ice, but in a better state of order - 30th August
• Bonattite: blue copper sulfate, but a lot rarer - 31st August
• Caffeine: Cheap, safe and legal; socially acceptable psychoactive drug - 1st September
• Cadmium tricyanomethanide tetramethoxyborate: try saying that three times! - 2nd September
• Ettringite: Damaging buildings from within - 3rd September
• Sr1-xTi1-2xNb2xO3: Growing crystals for your PhD, the trials and tribulations Part 1 - 4th September
• Sr3TiNb4O15: Growing crystals for your PhD, the trials and tribulations Part 2 - 5th September
• Uraninite: A powering mineral - 6th September
• Autunite: A more complicated powering mineral - 7th September
• Ekanite: a mineral that will amorphise itself - 9th September
• Lazurite: September's birthstone, your choice, Sapphire or Lapis Lazuli - 11th September
• Lepidolite: Where does all the lithium come from? - 12th September
• Nitinol: You can do a lot with two elements - 13th September
• Heklaite: A mineral from Iceland - 14th September
• Magnetite: Biominerals #1 - 17th September
• Weddellite: Biominerals #2, in Antarctica and in you! - 18th September
• Francolite: Biominerals #3, a mineral in fossilized dinosaur bones - 19th September
• Moganite: Biominerals #4, the wonderful world of silica - 20th September
• Barite: Biomineral #5, which way is up? - 21st September
• Red Spinel: The world's most underappreciated gemstone - 24th September
• Iron trans-4,4.-azopyridine thiocyanate: Letting things down - 25th September
• Nd2Fe2B: Neo-mag, The strongest permanent magnet of them all! - 26th September
• Sodium hydride: simple yet historic - 27th September
• L-Serine: Chasing complex molecules in the stars - 28th September
• Silver(I) tricyanomethanide: Negative compression! - 29th September
• Layered cuprous tricyanomethanide derivative: Interdigitation, interpenetration, intercalation - 30th September
• Xenon complex: Impossible chemistry, making the unreactive, react - 1st October
• ZIF-8: A big family of MOF.s . Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks - 2nd October
• Monosodium L-glutamate: Enhancing flavour, molecule by molecule MSG - 3rd October
• Gerstleyite: All of the symmetry, Cm - 4th October
• [Me4N][Cu2(NCS)3]: All of the symmetry, P42cm - 5th October
• Fluocerite-(La): All of the symmetry, P-3c1 - 6th October
• Sr3C60: All of the symmetry, Pm-3 - 7th October
• Cadmium Cyanide: Dedication in the face of adversity - 8th October
• Zinc nitrate: Absorbing and beautiful - 9th October
• *Opal: When is a crystal not quite a crystal? - 10th October
• Celebrating Laue: Complex structures very quickly! - 11th October
• Cerussite: Celebrating Laue, very tiny crystals - 12th October
• Cerium gold silicide: Phase Under Pressure - 14th October
• Trinitroglycerin: a Nobel Explosive - 16th October
• Samarium hexaboride: When interesting is skin deep - 17th October
• *Fcc iron hydride: Finding hydrogen: where does it sit - 18th October
• Borax: what's in silly putty? - 19th October
• Bicarbonate of soda: Setting your cakes to rise - 20th October
• Universal 3-Ravel molecule: When is a knot not a knot? When it.s a Ravel! - 21st October
• Chalcopyrite: Trademark this mineral! - 22nd October
• Goosecreekite: The most unusual mineral name? - 23rd October
• Silver behenate: A long chain crystal - 25th October
• Magnesium Chloride: simple Sunday - 26th October
• Solid carbon dioxide: various phases - 27th October
• Boron - An element to watch for the future - 28th October
• Boron and carbon: Better together? - 29th October
• Willemite: Glowing green - 30th October
• Sulfur - S8: brimstone - 1st November
• Malic acid: the sour taste - 2nd November
• Gibbsite: Collect enough minerals and someone will name one after you! - 3rd November
• *Future Boron: Virtual Synthesis is the Next Phase - 4th November
• Potassium nitrate: Remember, Remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot - 5th November
• Congressane: chosen for its looks - 6th November
• Curium: Madam Curie - one of her elements (plus a bonus one!) - 7th November
• Vaterite: It takes two - 8th November
• Kaolinite: Fancy a wrestle? - 9th November
• Karrikinolide: Where there's smoke, there's germination - 10th November
• Malachite: Common beauty - 11th November
• Pseudomalachite: a mineral imposter - 12th November
• Cobalt chloride: growing new flowers in the chemical garden - 13th November
• Ice XV: The most recently discovered ice structure - 15th November
• Krypton: a Super cool material - the crystal structure - 16th November
• Melilite: What are comets made out of? One potential ingredient - 17th November
• L-Glutamic acid: What was Philae looking for on 67P? - 18th November
• *Einsteinium sesquioxide: An explosive discovery - 21st November
• Stishovite: Sign of an impact - 22nd November
• Alpha and beta tin: A failed campaign - 23rd November
• Alpha plutonium: a rebel element - 25th November
• Orange Topaz: November's birthstone - 26th November
• Tryptophan: Your crystallographic Thanksgiving - 27th November
• Palmitic acid: Saturating your food - 29th November
• Vermiculite: A crystal sandwich - 30th November
• Methylammonium lead halides: a Structure for Summer - 1st December
• Batrachotoxin A: I'm pretty, but don't touch me as I'm deadly - 2nd December
• Tricalcium aluminate: Beautifully holding buildings together - 4th December
• Pinene: It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas! - 5th December
• Lithium borohydride: Stuffing in the hydrogen - 6th December
• Jadeite: a greenstone - 7th December
• Spherocobaltite: Mineral in pink - 8th December
• Tourmaline: The final birthstone of the year - 9th December
• Ferrocene: An accidental molecule - 10th December
• Hexaferrocenylbenzene: An impossible molecule - 11th December
• UiO-66: The MOFIA & the boss of the crown family - 12th December
• Superconductive concrete: Now you.ve seen everything - 13th December
• Augite: a Rock with a cleavage - 14th December
• Ice XVI: the newest form of ice! - 15th December
• Han purple: Colour of the terracotta warriors - 16th December
• Raspberry ketone: Molecule of deceit - 17th December
• Methane under pressure: the strange co-incidence of methane B - 18th December
• Santite: It's making a list - 19th December
• Cocoa butter: Seasons greeting - 21st December
• Ho Ho Ho: Merry Christmas - 23rd December
• Why does a lobster change colour on cooking? - 25th December
• Tartaric acid: Pasteurized crystals - 27th December
• Torbernite: Decorative, but a little deadly - 28th December
• 54 nets and nothing fishy - 29th December
• Lanthanoid hexacyanidocobaltates, a.k.a. LnCo(CN)6: Shrinking in the heat - 30th December

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MOF structures featured by Crystallography365

• UiO-66: The MOFIA & the boss of the crown family - 12th December
• ZIF-8: A big family of MOF.s . Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks - 2nd October
• Nanoballs: synthesis for the lazy - 26th August
• Zinc cyanide: the beauty within - 15th August
• Copper Tetracyanotetraphenylmethane Tetrafluoroborate: Crystals by design - 13th August
• MIL-53: Flexible Framework, it Breathes but isn't alive - 31st July
• An Edible Metal-Organic Framework: Porosity on your plate - 23rd June
• HKUST 1: the Structure of empty space - 3rd January

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