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 …

CRYSTAL23: A program for computational solid state physics and chemistry

A Erba, JK Desmarais, S Casassa… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Crystal program for quantum-mechanical simulations of materials has been bridging the
realm of molecular quantum chemistry to the realm of solid state physics for many years …

The rise of the dynamic crystals

P Naumov, DP Karothu, E Ahmed… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The anticipated shift in the focal point of interest of solid-state chemists, crystal engineers,
and crystallographers from structure to properties to function parallels the need to apply our …

Elastically flexible molecular crystals

AJ Thompson, AIC Orué, AJ Nair, JR Price… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of molecular single crystals that display interesting elastic behaviour has
generated excitement regarding their potential applications as it has upended the common …

Next‐generation organic photonics: the emergence of flexible crystal optical waveguides

M Annadhasan, S Basak… - Advanced Optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic crystals possessing both flexibility and light‐guiding properties are attractive
candidates for spatial control of the light output for next‐generation technological …

Mechanophotonics: Flexible single‐crystal organic waveguides and circuits

M Annadhasan, AR Agrawal, S Bhunia… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present the one‐dimensional optical‐waveguiding crystal dithieno [3, 2‐a: 2′, 3′‐c]
phenazine with a high aspect ratio, high mechanical flexibility, and selective self …

Superior flexibility in oxide ceramic crystal nanofibers

Y Zhang, S Liu, J Yan, X Zhang, S **a… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Oxide crystal ceramics are commonly hard and brittle, when they are bent they typically
fracture. Such mechanical response limits the use of these materials in emerging fields like …

A Broadband, Multiplexed‐Visible‐Light‐Transport in Composite Flexible‐Organic‐Crystal Waveguide

AV Kumar, M Godumala, J Ravi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We report the construction of an organic crystal multiplexer using three chemically and
optically different acicular, flexible organic crystals for a broadband, visible light signal …

Global analysis of the mechanical properties of organic crystals

DP Karothu, J Mahmoud Halabi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Organic crystals, although widely studied, have not been considered nascent candidate
materials in engineering design. Here we summarize the mechanical properties of organic …

Crystal adaptronics: mechanically reconfigurable elastic and superelastic molecular crystals

E Ahmed, DP Karothu, P Naumov - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanically reconfigurable molecular crystals—ordered materials that can adapt to
variable operating and environmental conditions by deformation, whereby they attain motility …