Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals

WM Awad, DW Davies, D Kitagawa… - Chemical Society …, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In the last century, molecular crystals functioned predominantly as a means for determining
the molecular structures via X-ray diffraction, albeit as the century came to a close the …

Mechanically responsive molecular crystals

P Naumov, S Chizhik, MK Panda, NK Nath… - Chemical …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Transformation of energy into motion (work) is one of the basic processes of energy
conversion in nature. The processes of actuation underlying the transduction of light …

Spontaneous deracemizations

T Buhse, JM Cruz, ME Noble-Teran… - Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Spontaneous deracemizations is a challenging, multidisciplinary subject in current chirality
research. In the absence of any chiral inductors, an achiral substance or a racemic …

Spatially resolved analysis of short-range structure perturbations in a plastically bent molecular crystal

MK Panda, S Ghosh, N Yasuda, T Moriwaki… - Nature …, 2015‏ - nature.com
The exceptional mechanical flexibility observed with certain organic crystals defies the
common perception of single crystals as brittle objects. Here, we describe the …

Elastic self‐do** organic single crystals exhibiting flexible optical waveguide and amplified spontaneous emission

R Huang, C Wang, Y Wang, H Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Organic crystals are generally brittle and tend to crack under applied stress. Doped organic
crystals are even more brittle because of lattice defects. Herein, the first doped organic …

Growth actuated bending and twisting of single crystals

AG Shtukenberg, YO Punin, A Gujral… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Crystals of a variety of substances including elements, minerals, simple salts, organic
molecular crystals, and high polymers forgo long‐range translational order by twisting and …

A molecular‐scale understanding of misorientation toughening in corals and seashells

AJ Lew, CA Stifler, A Tits, CA Schmidt… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biominerals are organic–mineral composites formed by living organisms. They are the
hardest and toughest tissues in those organisms, are often polycrystalline, and their …

Integrating low‐temperature‐resistant two‐dimensional elastic‐bending and reconfigurable plastic‐twisting deformations into an organic crystal

S Tang, K Ye, H Zhang - Angewandte Chemie, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Integrating plasticity and elasticity in anisotropic molecular crystals is theoretically possible
and is beneficial in enabling rich and complex deformations; however, it is much harder to …

The elusive structural origin of plastic bending in dimethyl sulfone crystals with quasi‐isotropic crystal packing

SP Thomas, MW Shi, GA Koutsantonis… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bending in molecular crystals is typically associated with the anisotropy of intermolecular
interactions. The intriguing observation is reported of plastic bending in dimethyl sulfone …

Twistable pharmaceutical crystal exhibiting exceptional plasticity and tabletability

S Hu, MK Mishra, CC Sun - Chemistry of Materials, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
We report here the first pharmaceutical twistable hydrogen-bonded two-dimensional plastic
hydrate crystal of a well-known psychoactive drug, caffeine (CAH). The availability of two …