Searching for adaptable, versatile, and highly performing substances or building blocks is
the goal of materials science. Owing to their exceptional structural modifiability, capability for …

2, 5-Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is one of the top-12 value-added chemicals from sugar.
Besides the wide application in chemical industry, here we found that solid FDCA …

Diamond materials at different nanoscales provide them various characteristics such as
elastic mechanical properties in needle‐like nanotips, flexibility of 2D films having atomic …

Nanothreads are emerging one-dimensional sp3-hybridized materials with high predicted
tensile strength and a tunable band gap. They can be synthesized by compressing aromatic …

Pressure produces closely packed, high-density materials, thereby providing a promising
strategy to obtain high-energy-density materials. However, new phases or structures of …

Pressure-induced topochemical polymerization of molecular crystals with various stackings
is a promising way to synthesize materials with different co-existing sub-structures. Here, by …

Nonsymmetrical oxygen-bridged binuclear copper centers have been proposed and
modeled as intermediates and transition states in several C─ H oxidation pathways, leading …

Hybrid metal halides (HMHs) with typical host–guest structures exhibit intentional, unique,
and synergistic features of organic and inorganic components. Here, a novel 2D HMH with a …

The synergistic reaction between alkyne and phenyl groups is a promising pathway for
decreasing the reaction pressures of aromatics and enabling scalable high-pressure …

Compression of small molecules can induce solid-state reactions that are difficult or
impossible under conventional, solution-phase conditions. Of particular interest is the …