Global Performance Indices for Dynamic Crystals as Organic Thermal Actuators

Direct Quantification of Rapid and Efficient Single-Stroke Actuation by a Martensitic Transition in a Thermosalient Crystal

(2019) Abdullah Khalil et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Rigid helical-like assemblies from a self-aggregating tripeptide

(2019) Santu Bera et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Spatial Photocontrol of the Optical Output from an Organic Crystal Waveguide

(2019) Jad Mahmoud Halabi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photomechanical Azobenzene Crystals

(2019) Takuya Taniguchi et al.   Crystals

Shape-memory effects in molecular crystals

(2019) Ejaz Ahmed et al.   Nature Communications

Mechanically interlocked architecture aids an ultra-stiff and ultra-hard elastically bendable cocrystal

(2019) Somnath Dey et al.   Nature Communications

Robust thermoelastic microactuator based on an organic molecular crystal

(2019) Yulong Duan et al.   Nature Communications

Elastic Self-Doping Organic Single Crystals Exhibiting Flexible Optical Waveguide and Amplified Spontaneous Emission

(2018) Rui Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Highly Elastic Organic Crystals for Flexible Optical Waveguides

(2018) Huapeng Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Crystal Adaptronics: Mechanically Reconfigurable Elastic and Superelastic Molecular Crystals

(2018) Ejaz Ahmed et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Reversible thermosalience of 4-aminobenzonitrile

(2018) Lukman O. Alimi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Effect of Crystal Packing on the Thermosalient Effect of the Pincer-Type Diester Naphthalene-2,3-diyl-bis(4-fluorobenzoate): A New Class II Thermosalient Solid

(2018) Majid I. Tamboli et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Thermosalient effect of a diketopyrrolopyrrole dye between two polymorphs with different crystal systems and molecular arrangements

(2018) Hee-Soo So et al.   CRYSTENGCOMM

Dual-Mode Light Transduction through a Plastically Bendable Organic Crystal as an Optical Waveguide

(2018) Luca Catalano et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Nanoindentation of HMX and Idoxuridine to Determine Mechanical Similarity

(2017) Alexandra Burch et al.   Crystals

Mechanochemical synthesis ofN-salicylideneaniline: thermosalient effect of polymorphic crystals

(2017) Sudhir Mittapalli et al.   IUCrJ

Thermomechanical effect in molecular crystals: the role of halogen-bonding interactions

(2017) Sudhir Mittapalli et al.   IUCrJ

Light-Mediated Manufacture and Manipulation of Actuators

(2016) Dong-Dong Han et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photoinduced Ratchet-Like Rotational Motion of Branched Molecular Crystals

(2016) Lingyan Zhu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Elastic Organic Crystals of a Fluorescent π-Conjugated Molecule

(2016) Shotaro Hayashi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Crystals on the move: mechanical effects in dynamic solids

(2016) Patrick Commins et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Switchable molecule-based materials for micro- and nanoscale actuating applications: Achievements and prospects

(2016) María D. Manrique-Juárez et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Nanoindentation of the Triclinic Molecular Crystal 1,3,5-Triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene: A Molecular Dynamics Study

(2016) Nithin Mathew et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Shape-Memory and Self-Healing Effects in Mechanosalient Molecular Crystals

(2016) Durga Prasad Karothu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Cooperative Jahn–Teller effect and the role of strain in the tetragonal-to-cubic phase transition in MgxCu1 − xCr2O4

(2016) Serena C. Tarantino et al.   IUCrJ

Controlling Motion at the Nanoscale: Rise of the Molecular Machines

(2015) John M. Abendroth et al.   ACS Nano

Unusually Large Young’s Moduli of Amino Acid Molecular Crystals

(2015) Ido Azuri et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Artificial Molecular Machines

(2015) Sundus Erbas-Cakmak et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Mechanically Responsive Molecular Crystals

(2015) Panče Naumov et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Perpetually Self-Propelling Chiral Single Crystals

(2015) Manas K. Panda et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The tiniest Lego: a tale of nanoscale motors, rotors, switches and pumps

(2015) Mark Peplow   NATURE

Hierarchically arranged helical fibre actuators driven by solvents and vapours

(2015) Peining Chen et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

(2015) N. W. Bartlett et al.   SCIENCE

Anisotropy in the mechanical properties of organic crystals: temperature dependence

(2015) Reda M. Mohamed et al.   RSC Advances

Bioinspired Reductionistic Peptide Engineering for Exceptional Mechanical Properties

(2015) M. B. Avinash et al.   Scientific Reports

Organic Photomechanical Materials

(2014) Taehyung Kim et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Compaction properties of crystalline pharmaceutical ingredients according to the Walker model and nanomechanical attributes

(2014) M. Egart et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS

Organic photonics: prospective nano/micro scale passive organic optical waveguides obtained from π-conjugated ligand molecules

(2014) Rajadurai Chandrasekar   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Azobenzene-functionalized polyimides as wireless actuators

(2014) Jeong Jae Wie et al.   POLYMER

Colossal positive and negative thermal expansion and thermosalient effect in a pentamorphic organometallic martensite

(2014) Manas K. Panda et al.   Nature Communications

Electromagnetic Micromotors—Design, Fabrication and Applications

(2014) Stephanus Büttgenbach   Micromachines

Reversible Bidirectional Shape-Memory Polymers

(2013) Marc Behl et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

25th Anniversary Article: A Soft Future: From Robots and Sensor Skin to Energy Harvesters

(2013) Siegfried Bauer et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Driven Bending Crystals of Salicylidenephenylethylamines in Enantiomeric and Racemate Forms

(2013) Hideko Koshima et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

Thermally induced and photoinduced mechanical effects in molecular single crystals—a revival

(2013) Naba K. Nath et al.   CRYSTENGCOMM

Biomimetic Crystalline Actuators: Structure–Kinematic Aspects of the Self-Actuation and Motility of Thermosalient Crystals

(2013) Subash Chandra Sahoo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Kinematic and Mechanical Profile of the Self-Actuation of Thermosalient Crystal Twins of 1,2,4,5-Tetrabromobenzene: A Molecular Crystalline Analogue of a Bimetallic Strip

(2013) Subash Chandra Sahoo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

(2013) Zhiqiang Pei et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Bio-Inspired Polymer Composite Actuator and Generator Driven by Water Gradients

(2013) M. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Growth, thermal, dielectric and mechanical properties of L-phenylalanine–benzoic acid: A nonlinear optical single crystal

(2013) S. Tamilselvan et al.   SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

The application of graphene based materials for actuators

(2012) Yi Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Application of a magnetostrictive actuator

(2012) C.C. Hong   MATERIALS & DESIGN

The Thermosalient Phenomenon. “Jumping Crystals” and Crystal Chemistry of the Anticholinergic Agent Oxitropium Bromide

(2010) Željko Skoko et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Multistimuli Two-Color Luminescence Switching via Different Slip-Stacking of Highly Fluorescent Molecular Sheets

(2010) Seong-Jun Yoon et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ionic-liquid materials for the electrochemical challenges of the future

(2009) Michel Armand et al.   NATURE MATERIALS