Giant anisotropic thermal expansion actuated by thermodynamically assisted reorientation of imidazoliums in a single crystal

Autor: Zi-Shuo Yao, Hanxi Guan, Yoshihito Shiota, Chun-Ting He, Xiao-Lei Wang, Shu-Qi Wu, Xiaoyan Zheng, Sheng-Qun Su, Kazunari Yoshizawa, Xueqian Kong, Osamu Sato, Jun Tao
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12833-y
Popis: Designing materials with large thermal expansion is highly desirable to fabricate microscale devices. The authors report unusually large anisotropic negative and positive thermal expansion in a simple crystalline material, through temperature-driven orientation of imidazole cations acting as molecular wheels.
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