Solid-phase synthesis articles within Nature Materials

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• Perspective | 29 March 2024

  Potential and challenges of computing with molecular materials

  Molecular materials for computing progress intensively but the performance and reliability still lag behind. Here the authors assess the current state of computing with molecular-based materials and describe two issues as the basis of a new computing technology: continued exploration of molecular electronic properties and process development for on-chip integration.

  • R. Stanley Williams
  • , Sreebrata Goswami
  •  & Sreetosh Goswami

• Article | 22 August 2016

  Melt-driven mechanochemical phase transformations in moderately exothermic powder mixtures

  Mechanochemical reactions between solid phases can be triggered by localized melting caused by deformation-induced heating.

  • Samuel A. Humphry-Baker
  • , Sebastiano Garroni
  •  & Christopher A. Schuh

• Letter | 21 September 2014

  Benzene-derived carbon nanothreads

  A high-pressure reaction is used to convert benzene molecules to one-dimensional crystalline carbon nanostructures that show diamond-like sp³ bonding. These nanothreads are expected to have strength and stiffness greater than carbon nanotubes.

  • Thomas C. Fitzgibbons
  • , Malcolm Guthrie
  •  & John V. Badding