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Matwalls: Thinking about risks in the development of new materials

Rob Willacy – Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:51:00 GMT

When we think about risks, lots of different things can come to mind but underpinning them all is the chance that something undesired may happen. If we didn’t take risks then few worthwhile accomplishments would ever be made. It’s through understanding these risks, assessing the risk / benefit profile and things we can do to improve that profile that we are able to manage risk and move forward.

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Everybody wants to be a millionaire

Kamila Nowakowska-Orzechowska – Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:28:00 GMT

In his blog, in which he was commenting on the assignment of CCDC number 900000 in the October of 2012, my colleague, Dr Seth Wiggin asked us a question: Who wants to be a millionaire? That was many years ago and since then we have not only issued CCDC number 1000000 for the deposited data but in June 2019 we added the millionth structure into the CSD.

The CCDC’s journey to one million published structures was remarkable and exhausting. In the months leading up to this milestone, we observed a big peak in the depositions of data as CSD Communications. So, we realised that the answer to the question Seth was asking was simple: everybody. Everybody wanted to be the one whose structure would be the millionth one. But where did this increase in data come from?

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