While traditional gas storage relies on permanently porous materials (such as activated carbon, MOFs, or zeolites), certain "non-porous" organic molecular crystals exhibit a remarkable ability to form cocrystals with small gas molecules (e.g., CH4, C2H6, CO2). These materials undergo guest-induced structural transformations, offering a unique mechanism for high-density gas storage and highly selective chemical separations. Our group is working on a dual-track project to expand this class of materials, and the successful candidate will contribute to either the computational discovery or the experimental validation (or both) of these adaptive molecular solids.

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