The rapid rise of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), which are emerging energy
conversion devices in advanced electronics and wearable sensing systems, has elevated …

The development of molecular materials whose physical properties can be controlled by
external stimuli—such as light, electric field, temperature, and pressure—has recently …

Multiferroics, compounds with both magnetic and ferroelectric orders, are believed to be a
key material system to achieve cross-control between magnetism and electricity in a solid …

Supramolecular chemistry uses non-covalent interactions to coax molecules into forming
ordered assemblies. The construction of ordered materials with these reversible bonds has …

Organic materials naturally lend themselves to the crafting of structure and function using the
strategies of self-assembly and supramolecular chemistry employed so effectively by …

The discovery of the organic metal TTF–TCNQ in 1973 led to an explosion of research
conducted on organic charge-transfer complexes. While these materials have been studied …

Piezoelectric materials are technologically important, and the most used are perovskite
ferroelectrics. In recent years, more and more emerging areas have put forward new …

The underlying phase transitions of ferroelectric mechanisms in molecular crystals are
mainly limited to order–disorder and displacive types that are not involved in breaking of the …

Materials exhibiting a spontaneous electrical polarization, that can be switched easily
between antiparallel orientations are of potential value for sensors, photonics and energy …

Shift current is a steady-state photocurrent generated in non-centrosymmetric single crystals
and has been considered to be one of the major origins of the bulk photovoltaic effect. The …