Nanoporous metal nanocrystals involving both nanoscale effects and nanopore properties hold enormous promising potential for various important applications due to their unique structures such as large surface area per unit volume and interconnected open framework. Self-assembly, as an excellent option, has been developed to control the desired structure and rational performance of nanoporous me...

We perform Monte Carlo simulations to analyze the surface and size effects in spin-crossover nanocrystals using an Ising-like model including surface and core intermolecular interactions. The consequences of downsizing effect on the transition temperature and the width of hysteresis as finger of the system cooperativity are discussed. The critical temperature is calculated using the real-space ...

X-ray free-electron laser diffraction patterns from protein nanocrystals provide information on the diffracted amplitudes between the Bragg reflections, offering the possibility of direct phase retrieval without the use of ancillary experimental data. Proposals for implementing direct phase retrieval are reviewed. These approaches are limited by the signal-to-noise levels in the data and the pr...

We have demonstrated downsizing effects of the soft porous crystal, [Zn(isophthalate)(4,4'-bipyridyl)](n) (CID-1), on the adsorption behavior between CID-1 and CID-1 nanocrystal (NCID-1). The difference results from the packing crystal structures and the dynamics of the frameworks.

We study the influence of the size and nanocrystallinity of dodecanethiol-coated gold nanocrystals (NCs) on the stiffness of 3D self-assembled NC superlattices (called supracrystals). Using single domain and polycrystalline NCs as building blocks for supracrystals, it is shown that the stiffness of supracrystals can be tuned upon change in relative amounts of single and polycrystalline NCs.