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Molecular systems are materials that intersect with many different promising fields such as organic/molecular electronics and spintronics, organic magnetism and quantum computing1-7. Particularly, magnetism in organic materials is very…
We report a molecular-dynamics simulation of a single-component system of particles interacting via a spherically symmetric potential that is found to form, upon cooling from a liquid state, a low-density porous crystalline phase. Its…
Density-functional based tight-binding is a powerful method to describe large molecules and materials. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), materials with interesting catalytic properties and with very large surface areas have been developed…
The mechanism and products of the structural collapse of the metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) UiO-66, MIL-140B and MIL-140C upon ball-milling are investigated through solid state 13C NMR and pair distribution function (PDF) studies, finding…
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a family of materials that have high porosity and structural tunability and hold great potential in various applications, many of which requiring a proper understanding of the thermal transport…
The magnetic properties of Nd${}_2$Fe${}_{14}$B (NFB)/transition metal (TM = Fe, Co) multilayer systems are studied on the basis of first-principles density functional calculations. We optimize the model structure under a variety of…
We demonstrate that it is possible to rationally incorporate both an isolated flat band, and the physics of zero dimensions (0D), one dimension (1D), and two dimensions (2D) in a single 2D material. Such unique electronic properties are…
The increasing financial and environmental cost of many inorganic materials has motivated study into organic and "green" alternatives. However, most organic compounds contain a large number of atoms in the primitive unit cell, posing a…
Multiferroics (MFs) are materials with two or more ferroic orders, like spontaneous ferroelectric and ferromagnetic polarizations. Such materials can exhibit a magnetoelectric effect whereby magnetic and ferroelectric polarizations couple…
Metal-organic framework (MOF) derived materials formed through high temperature processes show great potential as catalysts. However, understanding of structure-property relationships between the initial MOF and the resulting MOF-derived…
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials formed by interconnected metal atoms via organic linkers, resulting in high surface area and tuneable porosity, making them exceptional candidates for CO2 capture. However, their…
Two-dimensional van der Waals (2D vdW) materials that display ferromagnetism and piezoelectricity have received increased attention. Despite numerous 2D materials have so far been reported as ferromagnetic, developing an air stable and…
We performed ab initio calculations of the elastic constants of five flexible metal-organic frameworks: MIL-53(Al), MIL-53(Ga), MIL-47 and the square and lozenge structures of DMOF-1. Tensorial analysis of the elastic constants reveal a…
We develop a framework to describe collective buckling in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Starting from the microscopic structure of a single organic linker, we define a buckling coordinate governed by an effective double-well potential.…
Understanding how structural flexibility affects the properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is crucial for the design of better MOFs for targeted applications. Flexible MOFs can be studied with molecular dynamics simulations, whose…
Metal organic frameworks are nano porous adsorbents of relevance to gas separation and catalysis, and O2 separation from air is essential to diverse industrial applications. A metal organic framework Fe2(DOBDC), also known as a MOF74, can…
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an attractive substrate for catalytic reactions due to the high area density of reaction sites and the ability to tailor an array of material attributes. This study focuses on a thermally stable…
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an incredibly diverse group of highly porous hybrid materials, which are interesting for a wide range of possible applications. For a reliable description of many of their properties accurate…
Important phenomena such as magnetostriction, magnetocaloric, and magnetoelectric effects arise from, or could be enhanced by, the coupling of magnetic and structural degrees of freedom. The coupling of spin and lattice also influence…
One-dimensional metal-organic chains often possess a complex magnetic structure susceptible to be modified by a alteration of their chemical composition. The possibility to tune their magnetic properties provides an interesting playground…