Journal
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 30, Pages 6778-6783Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202000845
Keywords
bistable materials; mechanical properties; molecular wheels; phase transitions; thermal hysteresis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21701013, 21671161, 21971016]
- Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars
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Manipulating the collective molecular movements to implement macroscopic mechanical response of bulk material is attractive and challenging. Here, an organic-inorganic hybrid single crystal is synthesized, which exhibits a giant macroscopic shape transformation with a remarkable thermal hysteretic feature. The colossal anisotropic shape change, which manifests as an abrupt elongation of ca. 9 % along the crystallographic c-axis and a concomitant contraction of ca. 9 % in a perpendicular direction, is induced by a significant reorientation of imidazolium, accompanied with a substantial configurational variation in CuBr42- complex anions. The synergistic motions of both the molecular cations and anions engender a remarkable large thermal hysteresis (>30 K) in the shape transformation of the single crystal, implying that this material may play a role in alternating memory media. Furthermore, due to the stable crystal lattice, a single crystal that demonstrates naked-eye detectable large shape transformation was used as a thermal actuator to spontaneously control an electric circuit by temperature variation.
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