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CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 1759-1765Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01749
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Plastic bending of organic crystals is a well-known, yet mechanistically poorly understood phenomenon. On three structurally related epimers, derivatives of galactose, glucose, and mannose, it is demonstrated here that small changes in the molecular structure can have a profound effect on the mechanical properties. While the galactose derivative affords crystals which can be easily bent, the crystals of the derivatives of glucose and mannose are brittle and do not bend. Structural, microscopic, and mechanical evidence is provided showing that hydrogen bonding of water molecules is the key element for sliding over the slip planes in the crystal and accounts for the plastic bending.
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