Welcome to Kicking the Seat!

Ian Simmons launched Kicking the Seat in 2009, one week after seeing Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. His wife proposed blogging as a healthier outlet for his anger than red-faced, twenty-minute tirades (Ian is no longer allowed to drive home from the movies).

The Kicking the Seat Podcast followed three years later and, despite its “undiscovered gem” status, Ian thoroughly enjoys hosting film critic discussions, creating themed shows, and interviewing such luminaries as Gaspar Noé, Rachel Brosnahan, Amy Seimetz, and Richard Dreyfuss.

Ian is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He also has a family, a day job, and conflicted feelings about referring to himself in the third person.

Fapbi3 Cif File -

Using the CIF, software like VESTA or Mercury calculates the powder X-ray diffraction pattern. Key peaks for α-FAPbI₃:

The lattice on the screen twisted . It was a subtle shear, a non-orthogonal tilt that shouldn't be possible in a stable cubic perovskite. The violet iodine atoms began to vibrate, then swirl. The silver lead atoms dimmed. fapbi3 cif file

You can download verified structural files from these major databases: Using the CIF, software like VESTA or Mercury

However, FAPbI₃ is famous for its phase instability. At room temperature, it tends to transition from the photoactive (black, cubic) to the non-photoactive Using the CIF

This is a powerful tool for computational chemists.