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 …

Owing to the synergistic combination of a hybrid organic–inorganic nature and a chemically
active porous structure, metal–organic frameworks have emerged as a new class of …

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 …

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 …

CALF-20 was recently identified as a benchmark sorbent for CO2 capture at the industrial
scale, however comprehensive atomistic insight into its mechanical/thermal properties under …

Among the numerous fascinating properties of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), their
rotational dynamics is perhaps one of the most intriguing, with clear consequences for …

Thermally-densified hafnium terephthalate UiO-66 (Hf) is shown to exhibit the strongest
isotropic negative thermal expansion (NTE) effect yet reported for a metal–organic …

Whilst many metal–organic frameworks possess the chemical stability needed to be used as
functional materials, they often lack the physical strength required for industrial applications …

The guest-dependent flexibility of the pillared-layered metal–organic framework (MOF),
Zn2bdc2dabco· X (guest), where guest= EtOH, DMF or benzene, has been examined by …

A soft porous material [Zn (L) 2 (OH) 2] n· Guest (where L is 4-(1 H-naphtho [2, 3-d] imidazol-
1-yl) benzoate, and Guest is water or methanol) exhibits the strongest ever observed …