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Metal halide perovskites have shown enormous potential in perovskite solar cells and light-emitting diodes and made unprecedented progress in the past decade. Pressure engineering as an effective technique can systematically modify the electronic structures and physical properties of functional materials. Low-dimensional metal halide perovskites (0D, 1D, and 2D) with a variety of compositions have soft lattices that allow pressure to drastically modulate their structures and properties. High-pressure investigations have obtained a comprehensive understanding of their structure-property relationships. Simultaneously, discoveries of novel pressure-driven properties, such as metallization and partially retained band gap narrowing have contributed significantly to the further development of such materials. In this Perspective, we mainly highlight the effect of pressure on the properties and structures of low-dimensional metal halide perovskites, which is essential for designing new perovskite materials and advancing applications.Lead halide perovskites (LHPs) exhibit large spin-orbit coupling (SOC), leading to only twofold-degenerate valence and conduction bands and therefore allowing for efficient optical orientation. This makes them ideal materials to study charge carrier spins. With this study we elucidate the spin dynamics of photoexcited charge carriers and the underlying spin relaxation mechanisms in CsPbI3 nanocrystals by employing time-resolved differential transmission spectroscopy (DTS). We find that the photoinduced spin polarization significantly diminishes during thermalization and cooling toward the energetically favorable band edge. Temperature-dependent DTS reveals a decay in spin polarization that is more than 1 order of magnitude faster at room temperature (3 ps) than at cryogenic temperatures (32 ps). We propose that spin relaxation of free charge carriers in large-SOC materials like LHPs occurs as a result of carrier-phonon scattering, as described by the Elliott-Yafet mechanism.Single photon sources hold great promise in quantum information technologies and are often materialized by single atoms, quantum dots, and point defects in dielectric materials. Yet, these entities are vulnerable to annealing and chemical passivation, ultimately influencing the stability of photonic devices. Here, we show that topologically stable dislocations in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers can act as single photon sources, as supported by calculated defect levels, diploe matrix elements for transition, and excitation lifetimes with first-principles. The emission from dislocations can range from 0.48 to 1.29 eV by varying their structure, charge state, and chemical makeup in contrast to the visible range provided by previously reported sources. Since recent experiments have controllably created dislocations in monolayer materials, these results open the door to utilizing robustly stable defects for quantum computing.The ability of antibodies to recognize their target antigens with high specificity is fundamental to their natural function. Nevertheless, therapeutic antibodies display variable and difficult-to-predict levels of nonspecific and self-interactions that can lead to various drug development challenges, including antibody aggregation, abnormally high viscosity, and rapid antibody clearance. Here we report a method for predicting the overall specificity of antibodies in terms of their relative risk for displaying high levels of nonspecific or self-interactions at physiological conditions. We find that individual and combined sets of chemical rules that limit the maximum and minimum numbers of certain solvent-exposed amino acids in antibody variable regions are strong predictors of specificity for large panels of preclinical and clinical-stage antibodies. We also demonstrate how the chemical rules can be used to identify sites that mediate nonspecific interactions in suboptimal antibodies and guide the design of targeted sublibraries that yield variants with high antibody specificity. These findings can be readily used to improve the selection and engineering of antibodies with drug-like specificity.We have examined the formation process of methanol by the reduction of formaldehyde under hydrothermal conditions. A formaldehyde absorbs a hydrogen molecule and turns to a methanol. Water molecules near a formaldehyde help to transfer protons to proceed the reduction process efficiently. The energy barrier for the reduction of a formaldehyde becomes 32.8 kcal/mol when a water cluster with five water molecules catalyzes the reduction. Vazegepant The ionic product becomes the largest under hydrothermal conditions. We introduce the acid-base catalytic effect due to hydronium and hydroxide on the reduction of formaldehyde. The energy barriers for the reduction of a formaldehyde are further reduced to 29.3 and 10.4 kcal/mol by the acid and base catalytic effects, respectively. The reduction of a formaldehyde is more effectively catalyzed by a hydroxide than a hydronium. The acid-base catalytic effect is not available at the high temperature of supercritical water due to the sudden decrease of the ionic product. It takes too long to form a reactant compound in supercritical water. The transition state theory is applied to calculate the reduction rate of a reactant compound, considering the tunneling effect of a proton. We confirmed that a metastable equilibrium state attains among single-carbon compounds except methanol and methane by reproducing the concentrations of the carbon compounds measured in a laboratory. We calculated the formation rate of methanol using the equilibrium concentration of formaldehyde. We compared the calculated formation rate with that determined by a laboratory experiment and confirmed that the present theoretical calculation is accurately able to describe the oxidative and reductive reaction network of single-carbon compounds under hydrothermal conditions. The present study can be applied to examine a reaction network of single-carbon compounds in hydrothermal vents on the Earth, Enceladus, and other solar system bodies such as Europa.