Flexible ferroelectric organic crystals

Mechanical flexibility gives organic ferroelectric materials a potential advantage over their inorganic counterparts, yet it is challenging to produce them. Owczareket al. report flexible crystals based on trisubstituted haloimidazoles that show both ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties.

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Main Authors: Magdalena Owczarek, Karl A. Hujsak, Daniel P. Ferris, Aleksandrs Prokofjevs, Irena Majerz, Przemysław Szklarz, Huacheng Zhang, Amy A. Sarjeant, Charlotte L. Stern, Ryszard Jakubas, Seungbum Hong, Vinayak P. Dravid, J. Fraser Stoddart
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/2c4765f6334449df8733c2a898fb1b65
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