| Date posted | Title | Structure | Author |
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| 01/01 | The structure that started it all – Rock salt | Rock Salt | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 02/01 | HLA Molecules – How the body detects infected cells | Human leukocyte antigen (HLA-A2) | Julia Archbold |
| 03/01 | The structure of empty space – HKUST 1 | HKUST-1 | Sam Duyker |
| 04/01 | A material for another world – Sulfuric Acid Hexahydrate | Sulfuric acid hexahydrate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 05/01 | Brace yourself! The structure of DiSulfide Bond proteins (DSBs) | DiSulfide Bond proteins (DSBs) | Róisín McMahon |
| 06/01 | Snow joke – January’s Ice structure, Ice Ih | Ice Ih | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 07/01 | The Fight or Flight Receptor | G-protein–coupled receptors | Julia Archbold |
| 08/01 | Happy New Year Hangover – Ethanol | Ethanol | David Turner |
| 09/01 | Biology on the edge – Adaptor Protein complex 2 | AP2 complex | Brett Collins |
| 10/01 | The structures behind birthstones – January Garnets | Garnet | Helen Brand |
| 11/01 | Tales from a PhD – Synthesising a catenane | Catenane | Jason Price |
| 12/01 | Sweet crystallography – the crystal structure of sucrose | Sucrose | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 13/01 | Impressive Insulin | Insulin | Julia Archbold |
| 14/01 | Quartz: Dear Indi – Let me in next time!!! | Quartz | Hubert Chevreau |
| 15/01 | Conducting heat with a very complicated structure | δ-Bi2O3-Nb2O5 | Chris Ling |
| 16/01 | Kick-starting Adrenaline | Adrenaline | Julia Archbold |
| 17/01 | GOLD! The crystal structure of success | Gold | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 18/01 | Fire ice – the structure of methane hydrate I | Methane hydrate I | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 19/01 | Graphite – the makings of the future? | Graphite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 20/01 | A mineral that came down to Earth – pyroxferroite | Pyroxferroite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 21/01 | The 'desert rose' crystal | Gypsum | Hubert Chevreau |
| 22/01 | The first perovskite – Calcium Titanate | Calcium titanate | William Brant |
| 23/01 | WOOO, Tungsten(VI) Oxide! | Tungsten (VI) oxide | Mackenzie Hagan |
| 24/01 | You must be taking the **** – Urea | Urea | David Turner |
| 25/01 | Buckminsterfullerene a.k.a. Buckyballs a.k.a. C60 | Buckminsterfullerene | Sara Callori |
| 26/01 | A mineral for Australia day – Brucite | Brucite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 27/01 | Fighting the Flu – The structure of Neuraminidase | Neuraminidase | Julia Archbold |
| 28/01 | Kathleen Lonsdale and her mineral | Lonsdaleite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 29/01 | Certainly not a typical material – the structure of Gadolinium Titanates | Gadolinium titanate | James Christian |
| 30/01 | Resistance is futile – Lanthanum Barium Copper Oxide | Lanthanum barium copper oxide | Kirrily Rule |
| 31/01 | Spinning around with Spinels – Lithium titanate | Lithium titanate | Paige Hawkins |
| 01/02 | February's Birthstone – Amethyst | Amethyst | Helen Brand |
| 02/02 | Are you feeling blue? The structure of Prussian Blue | Prussian Blue | Florence Ragon |
| 03/02 | Lysozyme: Not to be sniffed at | Lysozyme | Róisín McMahon |
| 04/02 | Dusty crystals | Coulomb crystal | Andrew Studer |
| 05/02 | An Element of surprise – The crystal structure of Polonium | Polonium | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 06/02 | A crystal for after a shower – Talc | Talc | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 07/02 | A headache of a crystal structure – Aspirin | Aspirin | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 08/02 | Stranger than fiction – Ice IX | Ice IX | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 09/02 | You can see through it – Muscovite | Muscovite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 10/02 | Less than mellow yellow – the structure of picric acid | Picric acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 11/02 | Super Fast Ions – Solid Ion Conductor Lithium Lanthanum Titanate | Lithium lanthanum titanate | William Brant |
| 12/02 | Not another ice structure… Methamphetamine | Methamphetamine | Sam Duyker |
| 13/02 | Superconductivity Heats Up: Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide | Yttrium barium copper oxide | Sara Callori |
| 14/02 | Roses are red, violets are blue. Oxytocin in my brain makes me only want to be with you… | Oxytocin | Róisín McMahon |
| 15/02 | Danger danger! A high-pressure explosive – γ RDX | RDX | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 16/02 | Fool’s gold – the structure of Pyrite | Pyrite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 17/02 | Seeing Double – Calcite | Calcite | Jack Binns |
| 18/02 | How high is high for a high-temperature superconductor? – HgBaCaCuO | HgBaCaCuO | Kirrily Rule |
| 19/02 | Breaking down the drink – Alcohol Dehydrogenase | Alcohol dehydrogenase | Julia Archbold |
| 20/02 | How old? – The crystal structure of Zircon | Zircon | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 21/02 | A strange and dangerous glow – White phosphorus | Phosphorus | Joseph Bevitt |
| 22/02 | The chemical bond is stronger than we could have imagined | Hydrogen | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 23/02 | The beginning of the end for Polio | Polio virus | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 24/02 | Getting pernickety about the 1st pnictide superconductor, LaOFeP | LaOFeP | Kirrily Rule |
| 25/02 | This is a Hard One – Sildenafil Citrate | Sildenafil citrate | David Turner |
| 26/02 | Purple standards – Lanthanum hexaboride | Lanthanum hexaboride | James Hester |
| 27/02 | Plastic fantastic – polyethylene | Polyethylene | Joseph Bevitt |
| 28/02 | A structure determined by Linus Pauling – Hematite | Hematite | Helen Brand |
| 01/12 | A tree bark suspension and a Nobel Prize later … We wonder less about the structural basis of the action of aspirin | Prostaglandin H synthase | Lawrence Norris |
| 01/03 | Cutting up the genes – the structure of a spliceosome | Spliceosome | Brett Collins |
| 02/03 | Square snowflakes – the structure of Ice VI | Ice VI | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 03/03 | March's Birthstone – Aquamarine | Aquamarine | Helen Brand |
| 04/03 | Rigidity in carbon and hydrogen – Adamantane | Adamantane | Jack Binns |
| 05/03 | Organize your oxygen with brownmillerite, SrCoO2.5 | Brownmillerite (SrCoO2.5) | Sara Callori |
| 06/03 | The sour in the sweet – citric acid | Citric acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 07/03 | Classical crystal structures – sphalerite | Sphalerite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 08/03 | Classical crystal structures – Wurtzite | Wurtzite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 09/03 | Classical crystal structures – Caesium chloride | Caesium chloride | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 10/03 | Feeling Stressed? Understanding Anxiety and Depression | Corticotropin releasing factor | Julia Archbold |
| 11/03 | A Protein Swiss Army Knife | Outer membrane protein A (OmpA) | Anton Le Brun |
| 12/03 | Colour me beautiful – Carotenoids | Carotenoids | John Helliwell |
| 13/03 | It is sitting in your stomach – Hydrochloric acid | Hydrochloric acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 14/03 | Keggin your pardon, ma'm – the structure of a heteropoly acid | Heteropoly acid | Sam Duyker |
| 15/03 | Something for the Weekend – Potassium Bitartrate | Potassium bitartrate | David Turner |
| 16/03 | Making a drug work smarter – Acemetacin co-crystals | Acemetacin co-crystals | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 17/03 | Happy St Patrick's day – something to help you with the snakes? | Clerodane diterpenoid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 18/03 | It’s in the walls – Alite | Alite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 19/03 | The crystal structure rainbow – Red Oxygen | Oxygen | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 20/03 | The crystal structure rainbow – Orange crocoite | Crocoite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 22/03 | The crystal structure rainbow – Green fluorescent protein | Green fluorescent protein | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 23/03 | I'm blue da-ba-di da-ba dah – The natural mineral, Azurite | Azurite | Kirrily Rule |
| 24/03 | Myoglobin: (Don't) hold your breath! | Myoglobin | Róisín McMahon |
| 25/03 | The crystal structure rainbow – Indigo in your batteries? | Indigo carmine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 26/03 | The crystal structure rainbow – Imperial violet | Tyrian purple | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 27/03 | A celebration of X-rays – Roentgenium | Roentgenium | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 28/03 | Spins and Arrows: the Magnetic Story of MnO | Manganese oxide | Andrew Studer |
| 29/03 | A very rare gem – Uvarovite | Uvarovite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 30/03 | The crystal structure rainbow – Glowing in UV, Andersonite | Andersonite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 31/03 | Celebrating one of the founders of the field – the crystal structure of Braggite | Braggite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 01/04 | Cold as Ice… with 'Maxi' sacrifice | Antifreeze protein Maxi | Julia Archbold |
| 02/04 | Rare earth magnets: how crystallography can help you stay attractive | Neodymium magnet | Andrew Studer |
| 03/04 | The machine of life – the structure of the Ribosome | Ribosome | Brett Collins |
| 04/04 | Magnetic Thulium: Moments align in seven | Thulium | Andrew Studer |
| 05/04 | Deadly crystal structures – Chrysotile | Chrysotile | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 06/04 | Deadly crystal structures – Arsenopyrite | Arsenopyrite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 07/04 | Kalgoorlie where the streets are paved with gold – Calaverite | Calaverite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 08/04 | April Birthstone: Unlucky for some … Diamond | Diamond | Helen Brand |
| 09/04 | LixCoO2 – The Breakout Battery Hit | Lithium cobalt oxide | William Brant |
| 10/04 | Hero and a villain – Jarosite | Jarosite | Helen Brand |
| 11/04 | Murder most foul – Potassium Cyanide | Potassium cyanide | Jonathan McCree-Grey |
| 12/04 | Cubic ice – does it exist or not? | Ice Ic | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 13/04 | Hearing radio waves with galena | Galena | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 14/04 | An Explosive Result – Mercury (II) Fulminate | Mercury(II) fulminate | Jonathan McCree-Grey |
| 15/04 | Collagen: Triple strength | Collagen | Róisín McMahon |
| 16/04 | X is for xenotime | Xenotime | Sam Duyker |
| 17/04 | Botox: Toxic medicine | Botox | Róisín McMahon |
| 18/04 | What is our planet made out of? (1) Feldspar | Feldspar | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 19/04 | What is our planet made out of? (2) Olivine | Olivine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 20/04 | What is our planet made out of? (3) Wadsleyite | Wadsleyite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 21/04 | What is our planet made out of? (4) Ringwoodite | Ringwoodite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 22/04 | What is our planet made out of? (5) Silicate perovskite | Silicate perovskite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 23/04 | What is our planet made out of? (6) Magnesiowüstite | Magnesiowüstite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 24/04 | What is our planet made out of? (7) Silicate Post-perovskite | Silicate post-perovskite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 25/04 | What is our planet made out of? (8) Hcp Iron | Iron (hcp) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 26/04 | Bath salts on the moons of Jupiter | Epsomite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 27/04 | A small molecule that has saved a lot of lives – phenol | Phenol | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 28/04 | Don’t Panic – Valium / Diazepam | Valium | David Turner |
| 29/04 | LiFePO4 – The Unexpected Battery Success Story | Lithium iron phosphate | William Brant |
| 30/04 | Another strange element – β Uranium | Uranium (beta) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 01/05 | Something to mull on – Mullite | Mullite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 02/05 | Magnetic monopoles in the pyrochlore structure | Pyrochlore | Kirrily Rule |
| 03/05 | From crystallography, to running the country | Gramicidin S | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 04/05 | SmCo magnets – May the 4th be with you | Samarium cobalt magnets | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 05/05 | It's a bird…it's a plane…it's a superstructure! | PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice | Sara Callori |
| 06/05 | Elements Under Pressure: Barium | Barium IV | Andrew Studer |
| 07/05 | Square planar ferrites: sneaking up on unlikely atomic geometries | SrFeO2 | Josie Auckett |
| 08/05 | Mirabilite: 'The Miracle Salt' | Mirabilite | Helen Brand |
| 09/05 | ThCr2Si2: giving it the old 1-2-2 | ThCr2Si2 | Andrew Studer |
| 10/05 | J. D. Bernal and the structure of water | Water | Alison Edwards |
| 11/05 | Methane under pressure – the structure of Methane A | Methane A | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 12/05 | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and the structure of Vitamin B12 | Vitamin B12 | Alison Edwards |
| 13/05 | Gallium: out of the box | Gallium | Andrew Studer |
| 14/05 | Putnisite: Brand New and Completely Unique | Putnisite | Sara Callori |
| 15/05 | Pass the Electron – The First Membrane Protein Structure Shows How Purple Bacteria Get Energy from Light | Rhodopseudomonas viridis photosynthetic reaction centre | Anton Le Brun |
| 16/05 | Gd5Si2Ge2: Magneto gets cooler | Gd5Si2Ge2 | Andrew Studer |
| 17/05 | A peppery crystal structure – Piperine | Piperine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 18/05 | This is rocket science – ammonium perchlorate | Ammonium perchlorate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 19/05 | Haemoglobin: Bloody protein! | Haemoglobin | Róisín McMahon |
| 20/05 | Silicon – an element that is everywhere! | Silicon | Jonathan McCree-Grey |
| 21/05 | Protein crystals naturally occurring in a cellular membrane: Bacteriorhodopsin | Bacteriorhodopsin | Katy Wood |
| 22/05 | Confining water – the structure of HHTP tetrahydrate | HHTP tetrahydrate | Jasper Adamson |
| 23/05 | May's Birthstone: Could you actually build an Emerald city? | Emerald | Helen Brand |
| 24/05 | Same … but different. The structure of alpha-cristobalite | α-Cristobalite | Hubert Chevreau |
| 25/05 | Same … but different. The structure of beta-cristobalite | β-Cristobalite | Hubert Chevreau |
| 26/05 | MIL-143 or the big-brother (ir)regular beta-cristobalite | MIL 143 | Hubert Chevreau |
| 27/05 | A protein structure that is a β-barrel of laughs | Outer membrane protein F | Anton Le Brun |
| 28/05 | Selenite – Crystal Cathedrals | Selenite | William Brant |
| 29/05 | Getting in a Twist – A Polyrotaxane | Polyrotaxane | David Turner |
| 30/05 | Crystals you can grow at home – Nickel Sulphate Hexahydrate | Nickel sulfate hexahydrate | James Hester |
| 31/05 | An elusive polymorph of Paracetamol | Paracetamol | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 01/06 | A specially named perovskite, Megawite | Megawite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 02/06 | Absorbing gas – Lithium isonicotinate.solvate | Lithium isonicotinate∙solvate | Keith White |
| 03/06 | A play on colours – Labradorite | Labradorite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 04/06 | The two-coloured rock – Iolite | Iolite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 05/06 | A little out of the usual – a sneak peek at our take on the structure of a perovskite | Perovskite | Neeraj Sharma |
| 06/06 | Penicillin – D-Day | Penicillin | Alison Edwards |
| 07/06 | Ice III in Ganymede | Ice III | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 08/06 | Not for the intolerant – Lactose | Lactose monohydrate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 09/06 | β-Carotene helps you see in the dark | β-Carotene | Jonathan McCree-Grey |
| 10/06 | Important for this time of year – Vitamin C | Vitamin C | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 11/06 | Lacking in iron? – Iron (II) sulfate heptahydrate | Iron (II) sulfate heptahydrate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 12/06 | Vinegar – acetic acid | Acetic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 13/06 | Sodium acetate | Sodium acetate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 14/06 | The chocolate you don’t want – cocoa butter form VI | Cocoa butter (phase VI) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 15/06 | Molecular cotton candy – Ethyl Maltol | Ethyl maltol | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 16/06 | Some Like It Hot – Capsaicin | Capsaicin | David Turner |
| 17/06 | The Start of Digestion: Salivary α-Amylase | α-Amylase | Anton Le Brun |
| 18/06 | P-glycoprotein: It's as simple as ABC | P-glycoprotein | Julia Archbold |
| 19/06 | A crystal structure you eat with! Hydroxylapatite | Hydroxylapatite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 20/06 | A Crystal Structure for the Perfect Steak: Papain | Papain | Anton Le Brun |
| 21/06 | How Sweet! The structure of the Glucose Transporter 1 | Glucose transporter 1 | Julia Archbold |
| 22/06 | Sounds edible, but isn't - Tobermorite | Tobermorite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 23/06 | Porosity on your Plate – An Edible Metal-Organic Framework | Cyclodextrin-based MOF | Sam Duyker |
| 24/06 | A bit of a mouthful – sodium vanadium fluorophosphates: Na3V2O2x(PO4)2F3-2x | Sodium vanadium fluorophosphate | Neeraj Sharma |
| 25/06 | Bi George, it's bismuth! | Bismuth | Sara Callori |
| 26/06 | 'Roll out the Barrel': Structure of the LptD-LptE translocon complex from bacteria | LptD-LptE translocon complex | Julia Archbold |
| 27/06 | June birthstone – Pearl | Pearl | Helen Brand |
| 28/06 | An extra-terrestrial hydrocarbon – Ethane | Ethane | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 29/06 | A ring of progress – Benzene | Benzene | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 30/06 | A different type of donut – beta-sliding clamp | Beta Sliding Clamp | Amy McGrath |
| 01/07 | This month introduces us to the most iconic of red gems: Ruby, the birthstone of July | Ruby | Josie Auckett |
| 02/07 | A mineral of history – Fluorite | Fluorite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 03/07 | 'Let's talk about Sex' hormones – Part 1: The Oestrogen Receptor | Oestrogen | Julia Archbold |
| 04/07 | 'Let's talk about Sex' hormones – Part 2: The Androgen Receptor and Testosterone | Testosterone | Julia Archbold |
| 05/07 | An exclusive mineral – Bowieite | Bowieite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 06/07 | A formerly very exclusive mineral – Painite | Painite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 07/07 | Ordering matters: Not all brownmillerites are created equal | Brownmillerite super structure (Sr2Fe2O5) | Josie Auckett |
| 08/07 | What’s in a name? – Bridgmanite | Bridgmanite | William Brant |
| 09/07 | What is the Rutile structure? | Rutile | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 10/07 | Common structure, but rare material – Iridium Oxide | Iridium Oxide | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 11/07 | A mineral often mistaken for a fossil – cryptomelane | Cryptomelane | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 12/07 | A world cup inspired post – Germanite | Germanite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 13/07 | A world cup inspired post – Argentite | Argentite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 14/07 | Melatonin: Are you feeling sleepy? | Melatonin | Róisín McMahon |
| 15/07 | Caffeine hit: Adenosine A2A receptor | Adenosine A2A receptor | Róisín McMahon |
| 16/07 | A material that could help keep your heart going – lead zirconium titanate | Lead Zirconium Titanate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 17/07 | Time to scrub things up – Stearic acid | Stearic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 18/07 | Molybdenum – the building block of nuclear medicine | Molybdenum | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 19/07 | Ice X – The extreme form of ice | Ice X | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 20/07 | A smashing crystal structure – Nickel sulfide | Nickel sulfide | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 21/07 | Ring ring! Naphthalene calling | Naphthalene | Renée Webster |
| 22/07 | An aromatic mineral – Carpathite | Carpathite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 23/07 | Ion Channels and Chronic Pain – Structure of the Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel | Voltage-gated sodium channel | Julia Archbold |
| 24/07 | Cone snail toxins as painkillers – The structure of an alpha-conopeptide | Alpha-conotoxin (PnIB) | Julia Archbold |
| 25/07 | DNA: Life's blueprint | DNA | Katy Wood |
| 26/07 | A molecule from trees – Quinine | Quinine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 27/07 | Adapting a plant-based molecule – eugenyl acetate | Eugenyl acetate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 28/07 | A Crystal Structure for Stopping Germ Warfare | Anthrax protective antigen | Anton Le Brun |
| 29/07 | A diamond net of molecular tetrahedra | Molecular tetrahedra | Jessica Holmes |
| 30/07 | An Earth and Mars mineral – Meridianiite MgSO4.11H2O | Meridianiite | Helen Brand |
| 31/07 | It Breathes but isn’t Alive – MIL-53, a Flexible Framework | MIL-53 | Sam Duyker |
| 01/08 | The Good and Bad of Prions: Proteins that cause Mad Cow disease | Prion proteins | Julia Archbold |
| 02/08 | A bit of a mouthful – hexamethylenetetramine | Hexamethylenetetramine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 03/08 | Sweet as – Glucose | Glucose | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 04/08 | Triglycine Sulphate: Ferroelectic, Pyroelectric, Bolometric | Triglycine sulphate | Darren Goossens |
| 05/08 | A mineral from interplanetary dust | Brownleeite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 06/08 | The Chinese puzzle molecule | Chinese puzzle molecule | Alison Edwards |
| 07/08 | Crystals of temperature and electricity – Pyroelectric lithium niobate | Lithium niobate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 08/08 | Raw mineral of a legend – Goethite | Goethite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 09/08 | Feeding the world – Ammonia | Ammonia | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 10/08 | Superhard and superstrong – cubic Boron Nitride | Boron nitride | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 11/08 | Let’s Get Popping! – Ruddlesden-Popper Structures | Ruddlesden-Popper structures | Sara Callori |
| 12/08 | Chymotrypsin — the first protease structure | Chymotrypsin | Stephen Curry |
| 13/08 | Crystals by Design – Copper Tetracyanotetraphenylmethane Tetrafluoroborate | Copper tetracyanotetraphenylmethane tetrafluoroborate | Stuart Batten |
| 14/08 | Not going anywhere – low expansion alloys | INVAR | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 15/08 | The beauty within – Zinc cyanide | Zinc cyanide | F. X. Coudert |
| 16/08 | Bright spark – Magnesium Oxide | Magnesium oxide | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 17/08 | To the ends of the earth and beyond – the search for 'impossible' quasicrystals | Quasicrystals | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 18/08 | A Crystal Structure That Was Only Possible With the Help of an Ebola Survivor | Ebola glycoprotein | Anton Le Brun |
| 19/08 | Hasta la Vista, Babies… | Methandrostenolone | Michael Pfrunder |
| 20/08 | Perfect for the cold and 'flu season: Eucalyptus Oil | Eucalyptol | Jack Clegg |
| 21/08 | Five fold - Cobalt tricyanomethanide | Cobalt tricyanomethanide | Stuart Batten |
| 22/08 | August Birthstone: Peridot | Peridot | Helen Brand |
| 23/08 | A surprisingly important structure - Diopside | Diopside | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 24/08 | Powering Voyager - SiGe alloys | SiGe alloys | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 25/08 | Possibly the Deadliest Crystal Structure Known: Ricin | Ricin | Anton Le Brun |
| 26/08 | Nanoballs - synthesis for the lazy | Nanoballs | Stuart Batten |
| 27/08 | Light reactions | [Ni(dppe)(η1-ONO)Cl] | Mark Warren |
| 28/08 | Do try this in your own home! Copper sulfate pentahydrate | Copper sulfate pentahydrate | Garry McIntyre |
| 29/08 | What’s in a name? The Octapi Catenane | Octapi catenane | Stuart Batten |
| 30/08 | Ice, but in a better state of order - Ice II | Ice II | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 31/08 | Bonattite - blue copper sulfate, but a lot rarer | Bonattite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 01/09 | Cheap, Safe and Legal: Caffeine, The Socially Acceptable Psychoactive Drug | Caffeine | Jack Clegg |
| 02/09 | Cadmium tricyanomethanide tetramethoxyborate (try saying that three times!) | Cadmium tricyanomethanide tetramethoxyborate | Stuart Batten |
| 03/09 | Damaging buildings from within - Ettringite | Ettringite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 04/09 | Growing crystals for your PhD – The trials and tribulations Part 1 | Sr0.8Ti0.6Nb0.4O3 | William Brant |
| 05/09 | Growing crystals for your PhD – The trials and tribulations Part 2 | Sr3TiNb4O15 | William Brant |
| 06/09 | A powering mineral – Uraninite | Uraninite (pitchblende) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 07/09 | A more complicated powering mineral – Autunite | Autunite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 08/09 | A big water cage, sH clathrate hydrate | Methane Hydrate II (sH) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 09/09 | Ekanite – a mineral that will amorphise itself | Ekanite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 10/09 | Cellulose – the inner strength of plants | Cellulose | Lynne Thomas |
| 11/09 | September's birthstone: your choice, Sapphire or Lapis Lazuli | Lapis lazuli | Helen Brand |
| 12/09 | Where does all the lithium come from? – Lepidolite | Lepidolite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 13/09 | You can do a lot with two elements – Nitinol | Nitinol | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 14/09 | A mineral from Iceland – Heklaite | Heklaite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 15/09 | Bacteria: How do they resist? | β-Lactamase | Róisín McMahon |
| 16/09 | Cop this! The protein 'cop' (Cop9) with multiple tasks | Human signalosome complex | Julia Archbold |
| 17/09 | Biominerals #1 – Magnetite | Magnetite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 18/09 | Biominerals #2 – Weddellite (in Antarctica and in you!) | Weddellite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 19/09 | Biominerals #3 – Francolite, a mineral in fossilized Dinosaur bones | Francolite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 20/09 | Biominerals #4 – The wonderful world of silica | Moganite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 21/09 | Biominerals #5 - Which way is up? | Barite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 22/09 | Tetrahedral amorphous carbon: rough in the diamond | Tetrahedral amorphous carbon | Andrew Studer |
| 23/09 | From Toxin to Technology: α-Haemolysin | α-Haemolysin | Anton Le Brun |
| 24/09 | The world’s most underappreciated gemstone – Red Spinel | Spinel | William Brant |
| 25/09 | Iron trans-4,4'-azopyridine thiocyanate – Letting things down… | Iron trans-4,4'-azopyridine thiocyanate | Stuart Batten |
| 26/09 | Neo-mag: The strongest permanent magnet of them all! | Neo-mag (Nd2Fe2B) | Kirrily Rule |
| 27/09 | Sodium hydride, simple yet historic | Sodium hydride | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 28/09 | Chasing complex molecules in the stars – looking for L-Serine | L-Serine | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 29/09 | Negative Compression! Silver(I) tricyanomethanide | Silver(I) tricyanomethanide | Jasper Adamson |
| 30/09 | Interdigitation, Interpenetration, Intercalation | Layered cuprous tricyanomethanide derivatives | Stuart Batten |
| 01/10 | Impossible chemistry: making the unreactive react | Xenon-water compound | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 02/10 | A big family of MOFs – Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks | ZIF-8 | F. X. Coudert |
| 03/10 | Enhancing flavour, molecule by molecule: MSG | Monosodium L-glutamate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 04/10 | All of the symmetry – <em>Cm</em>: Gerstleyite | Gerstleyite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 05/10 | All of the symmetry – <em>P</em>4<sub>2</sub><em>cm</em>: [(CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>4</sub>N][Cu<sub>2</sub>(NCS)<sub>3</sub>] | [(CH3)4N][Cu2(NCS)3] | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 06/10 | All of the symmetry - <em>P</em>-3<em>c</em>1: Fluocerite-(La) | Fluocerite-(La) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 07/10 | All of the symmetry – <em>Pm</em>-3: Sr<sub>3</sub>C<sub>60</sub> | Sr3C60 | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 08/10 | Dedication in the face of adversity – Cadmium Cyanide | Cadmium cyanide | Stuart Batten |
| 09/10 | Absorbing and beautiful, zinc nitrate | Zinc nitrate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 10/10 | October birthstone: Opal. When is a crystal not quite a crystal? | Opal | Helen Brand |
| 11/10 | Celebrating Laue – complex structures very quickly! | Rh2(PNP)2(PNP)2(BPh4)2 | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 12/10 | Celebrating Laue – very tiny crystals | Cerussite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 13/10 | Celebrating Laue – comprehensive protein structures | Concanavalin A | John Helliwell |
| 14/10 | Phase Under Pressure – Cerium gold silicide | Cerium gold silicide | Andrew Studer |
| 15/10 | Local Order Hidden Inside the Average Order in PZN | PZN | Darren Goossens |
| 16/10 | A Nobel Explosive – Trinitroglycerin | Trinitroglycerin | David Turner |
| 17/10 | SmB<sub>6</sub>: When interesting is skin deep | Samarium hexaboride, SmB6 | Andrew Studer |
| 18/10 | Finding hydrogen – where does it sit in fcc Iron hydride | Iron hydride (fcc) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 19/10 | What's in silly putty? – Borax | Borax | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 20/10 | Getting your cakes to rise – bicarbonate of soda | Sodium bicarbonate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 21/10 | When is a knot not a knot? When it's a Ravel! | Universal 3-Ravel | Jack Clegg |
| 22/10 | Trademark this mineral! | Chalcopyrite | Sara Callori |
| 23/10 | Goosecreekite – The most unusual mineral name? | Goosecreekite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 24/10 | Superbug superpowers | Penicillin binding protein variant (PBP2a) | Róisín McMahon |
| 25/10 | A long chain crystal – Silver behenate | Silver behenate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 26/10 | Simple Sunday – Magnesium Chloride | Magnesium chloride | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 27/10 | Solid carbon dioxide | Carbon dioxide | Lawrence Norris |
| 28/10 | Boron – an element to watch for the future | Boron (α) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 29/10 | Boron and carbon – better together? | Willemite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 30/10 | Glowing green – Willemite | Boron carbide | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 31/10 | Bak: The Face of Death | Bak | Jason Brouwer |
| 01/11 | Brimstone (sulfur) | Sulfur (S8) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 02/11 | The sour taste – Malic acid | Malic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 03/11 | Collect enough minerals and someone will name one after you! – Gibbsite | Gibbsite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 04/11 | Future Boron: Virtual Synthesis is the Next Phase | Boron (B56) | Andrew Studer |
| 05/11 | Remember, Remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot… | Niter | Helen Brand |
| 06/11 | Chosen for its looks – Congressane | Congressane | Renée Webster |
| 07/11 | Madam Curie – one of her elements: Curium | Curium | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 08/11 | It takes two – Vaterite | Vaterite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 09/11 | Fancy a wrestle? – Kaolinite | Kaolinite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 10/11 | Karrikinolide – where there's smoke, there's germination | Karrikinolide | Renée Webster |
| 11/11 | Common beauty – Malachite | Malachite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 12/11 | A mineral imposter – pseudomalachite | Pseudomalachite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 13/11 | Growing new flowers in the chemical garden – cobalt chloride | Cobalt chloride | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 14/11 | Whoop whoop: pertussis toxin | Pertussis toxin | Anton Le Brun |
| 15/11 | The most recently discovered ice structure – Ice XV | Ice XV | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 16/11 | A super cool material – the crystal structure of Krypton | Krypton | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 17/11 | What are comets made out of? One potential ingredient: Melilite | Melilite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 18/11 | What was Philae looking for on 67P? L-Glutamic acid | L-Glutamic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 19/11 | Crystallising enzymes from beans – celebrating Sumner | Jack bean urease | John Helliwell |
| 20/11 | From crystal to structure in 84 years | Jack bean urease | Róisín McMahon |
| 21/11 | An explosive discovery – Einsteinium sesquioxide | Einsteinium sesquioxide | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 22/11 | Sign of an impact – Stishovite | Stishovite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 23/11 | A failed campaign – alpha and beta tin | Tin (alpha and beta) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 24/11 | DNA Polymerase in Celebration of Evolution Day | DNA polymerase | Anton Le Brun |
| 25/11 | Alpha plutonium – a rebel element | Plutonium (alpha phase) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 26/11 | November's birthstone – Orange Topaz | Topaz | Helen Brand |
| 27/11 | Your crystallographic Thanksgiving – Tryptophan! | Tryptophan | Sara Callori |
| 28/11 | Surreal Microscopic Environments – Negative Crystals | Negative crystals | William Brant |
| 29/11 | Saturating your food – Palmitic acid | Palmitic acid | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 30/11 | A crystal sandwich – Vermiculite | Vermiculite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 01/12 | A Structure for Summer – Methylammonium Lead Halides | Methylammonium Lead Halides | Helen Brand |
| 02/12 | I'm pretty, but don't touch me as I'm deadly | Batrachotoxin A | Anton Le Brun |
| 03/12 | Munc18: No Munc-eying around with our molecular transport machinery! | Munc18 | Julia Archbold |
| 04/12 | Beautifully holding buildings together – Tricalcium aluminate | Tricalcium aluminate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 05/12 | Pinene – It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas! | Pinene | Jonathan McCree-Grey |
| 06/12 | Stuffing in the hydrogen – Lithium Boro-hydride | Lithium boro-hydride | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 07/12 | A greenstone – Jadeite | Jadeite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 08/12 | Mineral in pink – Spherocobaltite | Spherocobaltite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 09/12 | The final birthstone of the year: Tourmaline | Tourmaline | Helen Brand |
| 10/12 | An accidental molecule – ferrocene | Ferrocene | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 11/12 | An impossible molecule – Hexaferrocenylbenzene | Hexaferrocenylbenzene | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 12/12 | The MOFIA and the boss of the crown family: the UiO-66 | UiO-66 | Hubert Chevreau |
| 13/12 | Now you've seen everything – superconductive concrete | Dodecacalcium hepta-aluminate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 14/12 | A rock with a cleavage – Augite | Augite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 15/12 | A correction to an earlier claim – Ice XVI is the newest form of ice! | Ice XVI | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 16/12 | Han purple – colour of the terracotta warriors | Han purple | Sam Duyker |
| 17/12 | Molecule of deceit – raspberry ketone | Raspberry ketone | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 18/12 | Methane under pressure – the strange coincidence of methane B | Methane B | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 19/12 | It's making a list – Santite | Santite | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 20/12 | Factor IX: Christmas Factor | Christmas factor | Anton Le Brun |
| 21/12 | Seasons greetings. The crystal structure of Cocoa Butter | Cocoa butter (phase V) | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 22/12 | Oh, deer... | β-Lactoglobulin | Róisín McMahon |
| 23/12 | Merry Christmas – Ho Ho Ho | Hexakis(μ2-8-quinolinolato-N,O,O)-tris(8-quinolinolato-N,O)-tri-holmium(iii) 8-hydroxyquinoline solvate | David Turner |
| 24/12 | A little helper – Elf3 | Elf3 | Róisín McMahon |
| 25/12 | Why does a lobster change colour on cooking? | Apocrustacyanin | John Helliwell |
| 26/12 | Give me a resin | Cytochrome P450 2B enzyme | Róisín McMahon |
| 27/12 | Pasteurized Crystals – Tartaric acid | Tartaric acid | Anna Leung |
| 28/12 | Decorative, but a little deadly – Torbernite | Tartaric acid | Lauren Macreadie |
| 29/12 | 54 nets and nothing fishy | 54-Fold interpenetrated coordination polymer | Stuart Batten |
| 30/12 | Shrinking in the heat – lanthanoid hexacyanidocobaltates, a.k.a. LnCo(CN)6 | Lanthanoid hexacyanidocobaltates | Sam Duyker |
| 31/12 | Seeing the New Year in red: the structure of strontium nitrate | Strontium nitrate | Helen Maynard-Casely |
| 31/12 | 20141231_original | | Lawrence Norris |
