2026
19/02/26 – New pre-print available!
‘Tackling real-world crystal structure prediction from powder X-ray diffraction data’ available on ChemRxiv.
17/02/26 – New publication available!
‘Interplay of redox non-innocence and hidden symmetry breaking in a 4d coordination framework’ available in JACS.
29/01/26 – New pre-print available!
‘Disentangling phase separation and crystallization in polymer blend semiconductors and multilayers’ available on ChemRxiv.
2025
25/11/25 – New pre-print available!
‘Trapping a metastable node in an amorphous metal–organic framework’ available on ChemRxiv.
03/11/25 – New pre-print available!
‘Interplay of redox non-innocence and hidden symmetry breaking in a 4d coordination framework’ available on ChemRxiv.
28/08/25 – Conference presentation!
Talk entitled ‘Structure of a DNA-stabilised silver nanocluster in solution’ at the European Crystallography Meeting (ECM35) in Poland.
26/08/25 – Conference chair!
Co-chair of the ‘Total scattering and pair distribution function analysis’ micro symposium for the European Crystallography Meeting (ECM35) in Poland.
20/08/25 – New publication available!
‘Oxygen vacancy-induced phase transformations of iron-doped titanium oxide nanostructures’ available in ACS Nano.
24/07/25 – IUCr Journals Showcase!
‘High-quality ultra-fast total scattering and pair distribution function data using an X-ray free electron laser’ was selected for the IUCr Journals Showcase.
22/07/25 – New publication available!
‘High-quality ultra-fast total scattering and pair distribution function data using an X-ray free electron laser’ available in IUCrJ.
25/06/25– Invited conference presentation!
Talk entitled ‘Structure of atomically precise nanoclusters’ at the Swiss MatChem Symposium in Fribourg.
23/06/25– Invited workshop!
Lecture on DiffPy-CMI for the ‘Swiss Summer School on Materials Chemistry: Materials characterisation through X-ray total scattering’ in Fribourg.
26/05/25– Poster presentation!
DanScatt Annual Meeting and XFEL Workshop 2025 in Odense.
19/05/25 – New pre-print available!
‘Oxygen vacancy-induced phase transformations of iron-doped titanium oxide nanostructures’ available on ChemRxiv.
01/05/25 – New pre-print available!
‘High-quality ultra-fast total scattering and pair distribution function data using an X-ray free electron laser’ available on arXiv.
02/04/25– Synchrotron beamtime!
One day using DanMAX at MAX IV to study DNA-stabilised nanoclusters.
01/04/25 – Angewandte Chemie Hot Paper!
‘Structure of a DNA-Stabilized Ag16Cl2 Nanocluster in Solution’ selected by the editors for the ‘Hot Paper’ collection.
24/03/25 – New publication available!
‘Structure of a DNA-Stabilised Ag16Cl2 Nanocluster in Solution’ available in Angewandte Chemie.
14/03/25 – Fourth XFEL beamtime!
Four days using MID at European XFEL in Germany.
27/02/25 – New pre-print available!
‘Direct synthesis of amorphous metal–organic frameworks from nanoclusters’ available on ChemRxiv.
26/02/25 – New publication available!
‘Toward reversible crystalline-to-amorphous guest-induced transitions in manganese(III) carboxylate metal–organic frameworks’ available in Inorganic Chemistry.
24/02/25 – Masters thesis defence!
Congratulations Julian for passing the defence of his MSc thesis titled ‘Towards ab initio structure determination of DNA-stabilised Ag nanoclusters’.
23/01/25 – New publication available!
‘Tracking the formation of high entropy solid solutions and high entropy intermetallics by in situ X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy’ available in Chemistry of Materials.
2024
18/12/24 – New publication available!
‘(RPh3P)[Mn(dca)3]: A Family of Glass-Forming Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Materials’ available in Inorganic Chemistry.
01/12/24 – Two years in Copenhagen!
XFEL, BSc and MSc students, workshops and pre-prints – another great year!
22/11/24 – Masters thesis defence!
Congratulations Nanna for passing the defence of her MSc thesis titled ‘Synthesis and characterisation of amorphous metal–organic frameworks’.
14/11/24 – Third XFEL beamtime!
Two days using HED at European XFEL in Germany.
13/11/24 – Invited workshop!
Lecture on small-box modelling for the ‘Advanced Powder Diffraction Workshop’ at the University of Uppsala.
01/11/24 – Invited workshop!
Lectures on theory, data collection and analysis for the ‘Total Scattering and Pair Distribution Function Analysis Workshop’ at the University of Leeds.
29/08/24 – New pre-print available!
‘Structure of a DNA-stabilised Ag16Cl2 nanocluster in solution’ available on ChemRxiv.
28/10/24 – Visit to Oxford!
Winter Crystallography Meeting (combined PCG/CCG/ISIS User Meeting).
14/10/24 – 1000 citations!
It’s not all about numbers, but this milestone is pretty cool.
30/08/24 – Popular science contribution!
Simulations contributed toward ‘Vi må tænke småt, hvis opskaleringen af Power-to-X skal gå godt’ published in Dansk Kemi.
30/08/24 – EPDIC18!
Poster presentation titled ‘Probing nanoparticle structure with pair distribution function analysis’ at EPDIC18 in Italy.
23/08/24 – New pre-print available!
‘Tracking the Formation of High Entropy Solid Solutions and High Entropy Intermetallics by in situ PXRD/XAS’ available on ChemRxiv.
15/07/24 – MOF2024!
Poster presentation titled ‘Exploiting nanoclusters as synthons for direct synthesis of amorphous MOFs’ at MOF2024 in Singapore.
10/07/24 – Synchrotron beamtime!
One day using P02.1 at DESY in Germany to study clusters in solution.
20/06/24 – Bachelors thesis defence!
Congratulations Line for passing the defence of her BSc thesis titled ‘Structural characterisation of bimetallic nanoparticles with pair distribution function’.
03/06/24 – New publication available!
‘Loading and thermal behaviour of ZIF-8 metal-organic framework-inorganic glass composites’ available in Dalton Transactions.
17/05/24 – Synchrotron beamtime!
One day using CoSAXS at MAX IV in Sweden to study solvation structure.
14/05/24 – Synchrotron beamtime!
One day using DanMAX at MAX IV in Sweden to study solvation structure.
14/04/24 – Invited conference presentation!
Talk entitled ‘Total Scattering and Pair Distribution Function Analysis: Characterising Amorphous Materials’ presented at the PHOSPORE Spring School held in Brussels.
11/04/24 – Seal of Excellence Award!
Recognition received from the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call.
04/04/24 – Synchrotron beamtime!
Two days using DanMAX at MAX IV in Sweden.
22/03/24 – First undergraduate lecture!
Guest lecture in the ‘Applied Mathematics for Chemists’ undergraduate course entitled ‘Crystallography: The art of structure refinement’.
20/03/24 – Visit to Køge!
Centre for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis Retreat 2024.
18/03/24 – Conference oral presentation!
Talk entitled ‘Probing Temporal Core-Shell Behaviour with Pair Distribution Function Analysis’ presented at the Synchrotron Electrochemsitry Workshop 2024 (Oxford, UK) organised by Diamond Light Source.
19/02/24 – Nanostructure Group workshop!
Full day workshop on Rietveld Refinement.
13/02/24 – New publication available!
‘Transient intermediate in the formation of an amorphous metal–organic framework’ available in Soft Matter.
24/01/24 – European XFEL Users’ Meeting!
Poster presentation ‘Establishing High-Quality Ultra-Fast Total Scattering & Pair Distribution Function Techniques at the European XFEL’.
22/01/24 – Malvern PANalytical prize seminar!
Invited seminar on PhD thesis entitled ‘Extreme Disorder in Metal–Organic Frameworks’.
2023
18/12/23 – Communications Chemistry editorial!
Editorial article for Communications Chemistry’s ‘Modelling and advanced characterization of framework materials‘ collection now available.
07/12/23 – New pre-print available!
‘Transient intermediate in the formation of an amorphous metal–organic framework’ available on ChemRxiv.
01/12/23 – One year in Copenhagen!
Countries visited = 5
Days of beamtime = 24
Pastries consumed = ∞
17/11/23 – Second XFEL beamtime!
Three days using HED at European XFEL in Germany.
06/11/23 – PhD thesis prize!
Malvern PANalytical thesis prize in Physical Crystallography awarded at the Winter Crystallgraphy Meeting (UK).
24/10/23 – First XFEL beamtime!
Three days using SACLA at SPring-8 in Japan.
11/10/23 – New publication available!
‘Interfacial bonding between a crystalline metal–organic framework and an inorganic glass’ available in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
28/09/23 – 30th Beamtime!
One day using CoSAXS at MAX IV in Sweden investigating the formation of nanoclusters.
22/09/23 – Synchrotron beamtime!
Three days using DanMAX at MAX IV in Sweden investigating the formation of nanoclusters.
12/09/23 – New publication available!
‘Structural insights into hybrid immiscible blends of metal–organic framework and sodium ultraphosphate glasses’ available in Chemical Science.
15/08/23 – Visit to Jørlunde!
Centre for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis Summer School 2023.
21/07/23 – University of Cambridge graduation!
PhD in Materials Science & Metallurgy from Gonville & Caius College.
14/07/23 – Communications Chemistry highlight!
Latest publication highlighted in Communications Chemistry’s ‘Modelling and advanced characterization of framework materials‘ collection.
26/06/23 – Visit to Sandbjerg!
SMART-SOLID-Q-MAT Summer School 2023.
01/06/23 – Visit to Aalborg!
DanScatt Annual Meeting 2023.
12/05/23 – Synchrotron beamtime!
Three days using P21.1 at DESY in Hamburg.
11/05/23 – New publication available!
‘Mapping nanocrystalline disorder within an amorphous metal–organic framework’ available in Communications Chemistry.
09/05/23 – New pre-print available!
‘Synthesis and characterisation of metal–organic framework-inorganic glass hybrid blends’ available on ChemRxiv.
01/05/23 – Synchrotron beamtime!
Five days using BM31 at the ESRF in Grenoble.
25/04/23 – New pre-print available!
‘Interfacial bonding between a crystalline metal–organic framework and an inorganic glass’ available on ChemRxiv.
06/04/23 – Synchrotron beamtime!
Four days using DanMAX at MAX IV in Sweden.
10/02/23 – Synchrotron beamtime!
Three days using DanMAX at MAX IV in Sweden.
11/01/23 – Visit to DTU!
SMART Meeting 2023 at the Technical University of Denmark.
2022
16/12/22 – PhD viva complete!
Many thanks to my examiners Ana and Siân.
01/12/22 – Moved to Denmark!
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen.
30/11/22 – New pre-print available!
‘Mapping nanocrystalline disorder within an amorphous metal–organic framework’ available on ChemRxiv.
25/11/22 – PhD thesis submitted!
‘Extreme disorder in metal–organic frameworks’.
Adam Sapnik 