A perpetual calendar of crystallography - May
Magnetic monopoles in the pyrochlore structure
From crystallography, to running the country
SmCo magnets – May the 4th be with you
It's a bird…it's a plane…it's a superstructure!
Elements Under Pressure: Barium
Square planar ferrites: sneaking up on unlikely atomic geometries
Mirabilite: 'The Miracle Salt'
ThCr2Si2: giving it the old 1-2-2
J. D. Bernal and the structure of water
Methane under pressure – the structure of Methane A
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and the structure of Vitamin B12
Gallium: out of the box
Putnisite: Brand New and Completely Unique
Pass the Electron – The First Membrane Protein Structure Shows How Purple Bacteria Get Energy from Light
Gd5Si2Ge2: Magneto gets cooler
A peppery crystal structure – Piperine
This is rocket science – ammonium perchlorate
Haemoglobin: Bloody protein!
Silicon – an element that is everywhere!
Protein crystals naturally occurring in a cellular membrane: Bacteriorhodopsin
Confining water – the structure of HHTP tetrahydrate
May's Birthstone: Could you actually build an Emerald city?
Same … but different. The structure of alpha-cristobalite
Same … but different. The structure of beta-cristobalite
MIL-143 or the big-brother (ir)regular beta-cristobalite
A protein structure that is a β-barrel of laughs
Selenite – Crystal Cathedrals
Getting in a Twist – A Polyrotaxane
Crystals you can grow at home – Nickel Sulphate Hexahydrate
An elusive polymorph of Paracetamol
A specially named perovskite, Megawite