Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are typically highlighted for their potential application in
gas storage, separations and catalysis. In contrast, the unique prospects these porous and …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE), referring to the lattice contraction upon heating, has
been an attractive topic of solid-state chemistry and functional materials. The response of a …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) is a counterintuitive physical phenomenon that the unit
cell volume of material usually contracts instead of expands upon heating. With two …

Materials with negative Poisson's ratio attract considerable attention due to their underlying
intriguing physical properties and numerous promising applications, particularly in stringent …

Starting from the late seventies, the progressively increased availability of synchrotron light
sources allowed the execution of experiments requiring a high X-ray flux in a continuous …

New materials capable of storing hydrogen at high gravimetric and volumetric densities are
required if hydrogen is to be widely employed as a clean alternative to hydrocarbon fuels in …

The mechanical properties of hybrid framework materials, including both nanoporous metal–
organic frameworks (MOFs) and dense inorganic–organic frameworks, are discussed in this …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with high porosity usually exhibit weak mechanical
stabilities, in particular, rather low stabilities against shear stress. This limitation remains one …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) is the phenomenon in which materials shrink rather than
expand on heating. Although NTE had been previously observed in a few simple materials …

In this work, MOF bulk properties are evaluated and compared using several force fields on
several well-studied MOFs, including IRMOF-1 (MOF-5), IRMOF-10, HKUST-1, and UiO-66 …