Nanoporous metal-organic framework (MOF) materials display a wide range of functional properties with important technological, industrial, and environmental applications in areas such as molecular sensing and strategic gas storage/separation. Their well documented structural complexities can be expected to yield unprecedented pressure-induced phenomena, with the further potential for coupling of the host-guest properties afforded by their open structures and the small molecule pressure-transmitting fluids often used in high-pressure science. Moreover, compared to traditional solid state materials these open (i.e., low density) systems are likely to be "soft", with perturbations to the structure and functionality at less extreme pressures: pressures such as may be routinely encountered in practical applications.
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