Mechanically responsive molecular crystals that exhibit macroscopic motions such as
bending, twisting, and locomotion by light and heat have been studied intensively over the …

Mechanically responsive materials have been investigated extensively over the past two
decades. Diversification of actuation modes is essential for the practical application of …

Mechanically responsive crystals have been increasingly explored, mainly based on
photoisomerization. However, photoisomerization has some disadvantages for crystal …

Research on molecular crystals exhibiting light‐driven actuation has made remarkable
progress through the development of various molecules and the identification of driving …

Superelasticity is a type of elastic response to an applied external force, caused by a phase
transformation. Actuation of materials is also an elastic response to external stimuli such as …

Over the past few decades, molecular machines have been extensively studied, since they
are composed of single molecules for functional materials capable of responding to external …

In material informatics, the representation of the material structure is fundamentally essential
to obtaining better prediction results, and graph representation has attracted much attention …

Responsive polymers can alter their properties or shape according to stimuli such as stress,
light, among others. The stimuli may be strategically programmed at assigned triggering …

Photomechanical crystals have applications in light‐fueled actuators and soft robots. Herein,
light‐responsive, versatile, anthraquinone dye crystal oscillators actuated via natural …

Photomechanical crystalline materials that exhibit mechanical motion under light irradiation
are one of the fields of greatest interest to crystallographers. This highlight focuses on the …