Richard Dronskowski
@rdrons
Followers
1K
Following
2K
Media
271
Statuses
1K
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, @RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, Germany
Joined April 2015
To all friends of chemical bonding: there was a comment on our recent bonding analysis in phase-change chalcogenides, to which we have written a reply. All such materials have electron-rich multicenter bonds with ½ bond orders, but QTAIM (a density-chopping method) doesn't get it
0
5
40
The drama came to a happy ending. After a few protests, both kind and clear, a friendly typesetter (from India) came forward and made the corrections. It is worth protesting, resisting, not giving up. Never give up, never. Publishers need to realize that eProofing is a dead end.
0
1
10
I owe a lot to Tohoku University and its great colleagues, so I'm happy to repost. A top institute at a leading university in Japan, in beautiful Sendai.
Our institute at Tohoku University is now seeking passionate and talented researchers to join us! Check out the details!!.Multiple open positions:.• 1 Assoc. Prof. • 1 Assist. Prof. • 2 Postdocs.
0
3
19
Proofs are getting worse and worse. What the largest for-profit scientific publisher (with 8 letters) has been doing for years, another large publisher (with 5 letters) is now doing, too. The “galley proof” (with many weird errors, produced by the typesetter, not by the authors).
3
5
33
To all my friends in China: the translation of my recent chemical-bonding primer will come out soon, possibly in October or so. Please spread the news, thank you!
2
15
100
These are the participants of the 6th LOBSTER school, this year in Berlin, at the BAM. Even the weather is playing along!
0
1
22
It is a very special pleasure to present a new perspective article published in the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Science, open access of course. Using only three examples focusing on molecular crystals (carbonate chemistry), we show the importance
1
14
58
It gave me great pleasure to write this little commentary, especially as the accompanying topical review by Hoser and Madsen is extremely well done.
Richard Dronskowski: Everything you always wanted to know about the Debye–Waller factor but were afraid to ask #DebyeWallerFactor #ThermalMotion #AnisotropicDisplacementParameters @RWTH. #IUCr
1
3
23
RT @iowastatechem: Yesterday, we had the pleasure of celebrating the incredible careers of Gordie Miller, Irmi Schewe-Miller, and Joe Burne….
0
5
0
RT @kageyamalab: Welcome Nicholas David (Wenhao Sun Group, Michigan) and Hicham Bourakhouadar (@rdrons, Aachen) for their @JST_ASPIRE visit….
0
4
0
Can one predict crystallographic information (crystal system, extinction group, space group) from machine learning trained against a plethora of simulated powder XRD patterns? Yes, we can! A contrastive representation learning approach significantly outperforms previous
0
3
32
Today I remembered a happy day in 2024 when one of my doctoral students, an exceptionally gifted theorist, was awarded his PhD. Peter's fantastic contributions helped to reveal “metavalency” (in phase-change materials) to be invalid, not a new type of bonding but known as
2
1
28
There is important news for #compchem and #materials scientists, especially those working in industry. Wellenfunktion GmbH @Wellenfkt_GmbH (motto: Explore Chemical Bonding) was founded recently and specializes in scientific consulting and software development. If you are
1
5
30
Hartmut Bärnighausen, one of the most important German solid-state chemists and inventor of the group-subgroup family trees, has passed away at the age of 92. He was a fine colleague, always moderate in tone, extremely precise in his arguments. Despite his very few publications,
1
5
16
Dedicated to Gordie Miller, colleague and friend!.
The Missing Tb2O2NCN Compound: Synthesis, Characterization, and Luminescent Properties (Richard Dronskowski and co-workers) •
0
0
12
If I remember correctly it was John Ioannidis who pointed out that the majority of the alleged findings published in medical science (e.g., immunology) cannot be reproduced.
0
0
4
Dubious invitations to publish in journals without any quality assurance arrive by the dozen every day, but this one is really great. The algorithm doesn't even manage to enter a name.
2
0
6
The University of Innsbruck has a magnificent main building, but unfortunately they have abandoned X, it's just too dangerous here.
0
0
6
