Nature Communications (Apr 2023)

Large piezoelectric response in a Jahn-Teller distorted molecular metal halide

  • Sasa Wang,
  • Asif Abdullah Khan,
  • Sam Teale,
  • Jian Xu,
  • Darshan H. Parmar,
  • Ruyan Zhao,
  • Luke Grater,
  • Peter Serles,
  • Yu Zou,
  • Tobin Filleter,
  • Dwight S. Seferos,
  • Dayan Ban,
  • Edward H. Sargent

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37471-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Here, the authors utilise a combination of quasi-spherical theory and Jahn-Teller distortion to enhance the piezoelectric response of molecular metal halides, and the resulting piezoelectric energy harvesters exhibit superior power densities to the best-reported molecular hybrid energy harvesters.