Highly efficient in crystallo energy transduction of light to work

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 3633 - 11
• Main Authors: Lin, Jiawei, Zhou, Jianmin, Li, Liang, Tahir, Ibrahim, Wu, Songgu, Naumov, Panče, Gong, Junbo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 29.04.2024; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/301/1005/1006; 639/638/298/303; 639/638/541/961; Chemical Sciences; Crystals; Dimerization; Energy transduction; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Organic crystals; Piezoelectric actuators; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Mechanical properties; Actuators; Crystal engineering

Various mechanical effects have been reported with molecular materials, yet organic crystals capable of multiple dynamic effects are rare, and at present, their performance is worse than some of the common actuators. Here, we report a confluence of different mechanical effects across three polymorph...