It is said across numerous disciplines, from biology to architecture to software engineering, that “form ever follows function.” This adage highlights the intimate relationship between structural characteristics and functional properties in many disparate fields of work. Here, we discuss how the catalytic activity and compressibility of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are...
In multiatomic systems, high applied pressures reduce interatomic contact distances. At pressures comparable to those inside planets, this relatively simple principle completely changes the guiding principles of chemistry and physics established at near-ambient conditions. High-pressure investigations of precisely how the laws of nature evolve in the gigapascal and megabar regime...