Plastic crystals (PCs), formed by certain types of molecules or ions with reorientational
freedom, offer both exceptional mechanical plasticity and long range order, hence they are …

With increasing demands for safe, high capacity energy storage to support personal
electronics, newer devices such as unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as the …

A critical challenge for next-generation lithium-based batteries lies in development of
electrolytes that enable thermal safety along with the use of high-energy-density electrodes …

Zwitterionic materials can exhibit unique characteristics and are highly tunable by variation
to the covalently bound cationic and anionic moieties. Despite the breadth of properties and …

The advent of solid-state electrolytes has unearthed a new paradigm of next-generation
batteries endowed with improved electrochemical properties and exceptional safety …

Ferroelectrics, as piezoelectric materials with reversal polarization, have great appeal in
energy signal harvesting and conversion. Their polarization and piezoelectricity are widely …

The development of safe and reliable energy conversion and storage technologies is an
urgent global challenge central to mitigating our dependence on fossil fuels. Key to many …

Significant progress has been made recently in the development of Organic Ionic Plastic
Crystals (OIPCs), a unique family of solid state electrolytes with applications in …

1, 2, 4-Triazolium perfluorobutanesulfonate (1), a novel, pure protic organic ionic plastic
crystal (POIPC) with a wide plastic crystalline phase, has been explored as a proof-of …

To switch bulk nonlinear optical (NLO) effects represents an exciting new branch of NLO
material science, whereas it remains a great challenge to achieve high contrast for “on/off” of …