Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals

WM Awad, DW Davies, D Kitagawa… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last century, molecular crystals functioned predominantly as a means for determining
the molecular structures via X-ray diffraction, albeit as the century came to a close the …

Tailor-made additives for melt-grown molecular crystals: Why or why not?

H Zhou, J Sabino, Y Yang, MD Ward… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Tailor-made additives (TMAs) have found a role in crystal morphology engineering and
control by specific binding to crystal surfaces through stereo-chemical recognition. The utility …

Imidacloprid crystal polymorphs for disease vector control and pollinator protection

X Zhu, CT Hu, B Erriah, L Vogt-Maranto… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Imidacloprid, the world's leading insecticide, has been approved recently for controlling
infectious disease vectors; yet, in agricultural settings, it has been implicated in the …

Charge transport in twisted organic semiconductor crystals of modulated pitch

Y Yang, L Silva de Moraes, C Ruzié… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many molecular crystals (approximately one third) grow as twisted, helicoidal ribbons from
the melt, and this preponderance is even higher in restricted classes of materials, for …

Dimension Engineering of Stimuli‐Responsive 1D Molecular Crystals into Unusual 2D and 3D Zigzag Waveguides

M Annadhasan, A Vinod Kumar, P Giri… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate an innovative technique to achieve organic 2D and 3D waveguides with
peculiar shapes from an acicular, stimuli‐responsive molecular crystal,(2Z, 2′ Z)‐3, 3 …

Spontaneous and photomechanical twisting of a cyanostilbene-based molecular crystal

P Li, J Guan, M Peng, J Wu, M Yin - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Developing organic molecular crystals with twisted morphology either through spontaneous
formation or in response to external stimuli is compelling yet challenging. In this work, we …

Twisted crystalline organic semiconductor photodetectors

S Jeong, N Barbosa, A Tiwari… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Optoelectronic properties of anisotropic crystals vary with direction requiring that the
orientation of molecular organic semiconductor crystals is controlled in optoelectronic device …

Transport in twisted crystalline charge transfer complexes

Y Yang, Y Zhang, CT Hu, M Sun, S Jeong… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Many crystals grow as banded spherulites from the melt with an optical rhythm indicative of
helicoidal twisting. In this work, 23 of 41 charge transfer complexes (CTCs) are grown with …

Plastic deformation in a molecular crystal enables a piezoresistive response

A Hasija, AJ Thompson, L Singh, M SN… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organic materials are promising candidates for the development of efficient sensors for
many medicinal and materials science applications. Single crystals of a small molecule, 4 …

Highly polymorphous nicotinamide and isonicotinamide: solution versus melt crystallization

N Fellah, CJ Zhang, C Chen, CT Hu, B Kahr… - Crystal Growth & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The crystallization of nicotinamide (NA) and its constitutional isomer, isonicotinamide (INA),
is compared. NA formed eight polymorphs from the melt and two from solution, whereas INA …