Electrides are an unconventional class of materials in which electrons are localized in crystallographic void spaces rather than solely around atomic nuclei, giving rise to appealing properties such a...

Soft porous crystals (SPCs) based on flexible metal–organic cages (MOCs) remain elusive due to challenges in preserving both dynamic behavior and crystallinity after desolvation. Here, we report an SP...

Single crystal diffraction analysis remains the gold standard for the three-dimensional atomic structure characterization of framework materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic fram...

Here, we show that 3D electron diffraction (3D ED) is an effective technique to observe structural transformations in porous metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs), as well as for obtaining the structure of ....

Twisted bilayer metal-organic frameworks produce dodecagonal quasiperiodic moiré patterns with tunable length scales. Here the authors show that isoreticular ligand design enables control over aperiod...

What immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry? ―William Blake, “The Tyger”

Theory predicts that phonons—quanta of lattice vibrations—can carry finite angular momentum and thus influence physical properties of materials. Now phonons with angular momentum have been seen in tel...

3D moiré lattices can exhibit distinct incommensurate phases depending on twist angles. Here, authors demonstrate phase-controlled emergence of fully localized, line-localized, and plane-localized sta...

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Interactions such as van der Waals forces are generally considered too weak to govern the assembly of stable porous materials. Now, it has been shown that stable open frameworks can be assembled throu...

Nanobelts are cyclic arenes that only consist of annulated structures. Recently, various types of nanobelts have been synthesized and their unique properties have been unveiled. However, cationic nano...

A versatile origami-inspired modular chiral mechanical metamaterial structure facilitates dual-mode actuation, converting compression into rotational motion and torsion into extension or compression.