Crystal Adaptronics: Mechanically Reconfigurable Elastic and Superelastic Molecular Crystals

Probing Structural Perturbation in a Bent Molecular Crystal with Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy and Periodic Density Functional Theory Calculations

(2017) Ljupčo Pejov et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Crystal Engineering of Hand-Twisted Helical Crystals

(2017) Subhankar Saha et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Frustrated Lewis Pair Polymers as Responsive Self-Healing Gels

(2017) Meng Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Atomic resolution of structural changes in elastic crystals of copper(II) acetylacetonate

(2017) Anna Worthy et al.   Nature Chemistry

Fluorescent organic single crystals with elastic bending flexibility: 1,4-bis(thien-2-yl)-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzene derivatives

(2017) Shotaro Hayashi et al.   Scientific Reports

Elastic Organic Crystals of a Fluorescent π-Conjugated Molecule

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

Self-Healing Behavior in a Thermo-Mechanically Responsive Cocrystal during a Reversible Phase Transition

(2016) Guangfeng Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Azo⋯phenyl stacking: a persistent self-assembly motif guides the assembly of fluorinated cis-azobenzenes into photo-mechanical needle crystals

(2016) Oleksandr S. Bushuyev et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Using structural modularity in cocrystals to engineer properties: elasticity

(2016) Subhankar Saha et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Crystals on the move: mechanical effects in dynamic solids

(2016) Patrick Commins et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Molecular-Level Understanding of Structural Changes of Organic Crystals Induced by Macroscopic Mechanical Stimulation

(2016) Tomohiro Seki et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

The Role of Weak Interactions in the Mechano-induced Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Phase Transition of 8-Hydroxyquinoline-Based Co-crystals

(2016) Jie Liu et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Mechanically Flexible Organic Crystals Achieved by Introducing Weak Interactions in Structure: Supramolecular Shape Synthons

(2016) Gamidi Rama Krishna et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Optical Activity and Optical Anisotropy in Photomechanical Crystals of Chiral Salicylidenephenylethylamines

(2016) Akifumi Takanabe et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

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

A highly stretchable autonomous self-healing elastomer

(2016) Cheng-Hui Li et al.   Nature Chemistry

Shape-memory effect in an organosuperelastic crystal

(2016) Satoshi Takamizawa et al.   Chemical Science

Flexible ferroelectric organic crystals

(2016) Magdalena Owczarek et al.   Nature Communications

Controlling Motion at the Nanoscale: Rise of the Molecular Machines

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

Superelastic Shape Recovery of Mechanically Twinned 3,5-Difluorobenzoic Acid Crystals

(2015) Satoshi Takamizawa et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Designing Elastic Organic Crystals: Highly Flexible PolyhalogenatedN-Benzylideneanilines

(2015) Soumyajit Ghosh et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoreversible current ON/OFF switching by the photoinduced bending of gold-coated diarylethene crystals

(2015) Daichi Kitagawa et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Mechanically Responsive Molecular Crystals

(2015) Panče Naumov et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Dual Stress and Thermally Driven Mechanical Properties of the Same Organic Crystal: 2,6-Dichlorobenzylidene-4-fluoro-3-nitroaniline

(2015) Soumyajit Ghosh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-driven bending of diarylethene mixed crystals

(2015) Satoko Ohshima et al.   Chemical Science

Active porous transition towards spatiotemporal control of molecular flow in a crystal membrane

(2015) Yuichi Takasaki et al.   Nature Communications

Superelastic Organic Crystals

(2014) Satoshi Takamizawa et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Model for Photoinduced Bending of Slender Molecular Crystals

(2014) Naba K. Nath et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photopharmacology: Beyond Proof of Principle

(2014) Willem A. Velema et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ultrasensitive Photoreversible Molecular Sensors of Azobenzene-Functionalized Plasmonic Nanoantennas

(2014) Gayatri K. Joshi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Spatially resolved analysis of short-range structure perturbations in a plastically bent molecular crystal

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

Molecular mechanics of elastic and bendable caffeine co-crystals

(2014) Chun-Teh Chen et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Photo-mechanical azobenzene cocrystals and in situ X-ray diffraction monitoring of their optically-induced crystal-to-crystal isomerisation

(2014) Oleksandr S. Bushuyev et al.   Chemical Science

Nanoindentation in Crystal Engineering: Quantifying Mechanical Properties of Molecular Crystals

(2013) Sunil Varughese et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoinduced Curling of Organic Molecular Crystal Nanowires

(2013) Taehyung Kim et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Stress

(2013) J. A. T. Dow   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Oriented Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Phase Transition with Dramatic Changes in the Dimensions of Crystals

(2013) Guangfeng Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Shape Memory and Superelastic Ceramics at Small Scales

(2013) A. Lai et al.   SCIENCE

Sequence-Specific Peptide Synthesis by an Artificial Small-Molecule Machine

(2013) B. Lewandowski et al.   SCIENCE

Light-Driven Molecular-Crystal Actuators: Rapid and Reversible Bending of Rodlike Mixed Crystals of Diarylethene Derivatives

(2011) Fumitaka Terao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Diarylethene Cocrystal that Converts Light into Mechanical Work

(2010) Masakazu Morimoto et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Effect of mechanical cycling on the stress–strain response of a martensitic Nitinol shape memory alloy

(2009) Niraj Nayan et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING