Hyperconnected network architectures can endow nanomaterials with remarkable
mechanical properties that are fundamentally controlled by designing connectivity into the …

Hyperconnected hybrid organosilicate glass networks formed by hyperstiff precursor
molecules with certain geometrical characteristics can lead to exceptional elastic properties …

Hybrid organic‐inorganic glasses exhibit unique electro‐optical properties along with
excellent thermal stability. Their inherently mechanically fragile nature, however, which …

Supramolecular polymer networks are non-covalently crosslinked soft materials that exhibit
unique mechanical features such as self-healing, high toughness and stretchability …

Simultaneously improving the strength and toughness of materials is a major challenge.
Inorganic–polymer hybrids offer the potential to combine mechanical properties of a stiff …

If crystallization can be avoided during cooling, a liquid will display a substantial increase of
its viscosity, and will form a glass that behaves as a solid with a relaxation time that grows …

The three-dimensional arrangement of natural and synthetic network materials determines
their application range. Control over the real-time incorporation of each building block and …

Natural porous materials such as bone, wood and pith evolved to maximize modulus for a
given density. For these three-dimensional cellular solids, modulus scales quadratically with …

In the assemblies of subnanoscale polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane, topological
interaction makes the dominant contribution to their viscoelasticity with broad tunability. The …

The existence of nanoscale ductility during the fracture of silicate glasses remains
controversial. Here, based on molecular dynamics simulations coupled with topological …