Claire Hobday

Jul 23, 2024 | nature.com | Emily Meekel |Ben Slater |Claire Hobday

AbstractBy virtue of their open network structures and low densities, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are soft materials that exhibit elastic instabilities at low applied stresses. The conventional strategy for improving elastic stability is to increase the connectivity of the underlying MOF network, which necessarily increases the material density and reduces the porosity.