Mechanical metamaterials are man-made structures with counterintuitive mechanical
properties that originate in the geometry of their unit cell instead of the properties of each …

Advances in flexible and functional metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), also called soft
porous crystals, are reviewed by covering the literature of the five years period 2009–2013 …

We report on the implementation of a tool for the analysis of second-order elastic stiffness
tensors, provided with both an open-source Python module and a standalone online …

Recent years have seen a large increase of the research effort focused on framework
materials, including the nowadays-ubiquitous metal–organic frameworks but also dense …

Flexibility is a unique property of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that differentiates them
from other rigid inorganic porous materials such as zeolites and porous silica. Flexible …

X-Ray single-crystal diffraction has been the most straightforward and important technique in
structural determination of crystalline materials for understanding their structure–property …

Expansion and contraction of structurally flexible Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) or
Porous Coordination Polymers (PCPs) have been extensively studied from different …

Porous liquids (PLs), an emerging type of flowing liquid materials that combine the merits of
porous solids and flowing liquids, have garnered immense attention since the concept of …

While all materials reduce their intrinsic volume under hydrostatic (uniform) compression, a
select few actually expand along one or more directions during this process of densification …

Occasional, large amplitude flexibility in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is one of the
most intriguing recent discoveries in chemistry and material science. Yet, there is at present …