A perpetual calendar of crystallography - February
February's Birthstone – Amethyst
Are you feeling blue? The structure of Prussian Blue
Lysozyme: Not to be sniffed at
Dusty crystals
An Element of surprise – The crystal structure of Polonium
A crystal for after a shower – Talc
A headache of a crystal structure – Aspirin
Stranger than fiction – Ice IX
You can see through it – Muscovite
Less than mellow yellow – the structure of picric acid
Super Fast Ions – Solid Ion Conductor Lithium Lanthanum Titanate
Not another ice structure… Methamphetamine
Superconductivity Heats Up: Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide
Roses are red, violets are blue. Oxytocin in my brain makes me only want to be with you…
Danger danger! A high-pressure explosive – γ RDX
Fool’s gold – the structure of Pyrite
Seeing Double – Calcite
How high is high for a high-temperature superconductor? – HgBaCaCuO
Breaking down the drink – Alcohol Dehydrogenase
How old? – The crystal structure of Zircon
A strange and dangerous glow – White phosphorus
The chemical bond is stronger than we could have imagined
The beginning of the end for Polio
Getting pernickety about the 1st pnictide superconductor, LaOFeP
This is a Hard One – Sildenafil Citrate
Purple standards – Lanthanum hexaboride
Plastic fantastic – polyethylene
A structure determined by Linus Pauling – Hematite