Nature Communications (May 2016)

Superior thermoelasticity and shape-memory nanopores in a porous supramolecular organic framework

  • You-Gui Huang,
  • Yoshihito Shiota,
  • Ming-Yan Wu,
  • Sheng-Qun Su,
  • Zi-Shuo Yao,
  • Soonchul Kang,
  • Shinji Kanegawa,
  • Guo-Ling Li,
  • Shu-Qi Wu,
  • Takashi Kamachi,
  • Kazunari Yoshizawa,
  • Katsuhiko Ariga,
  • Mao-Chun Hong,
  • Osamu Sato

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11564
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Designing porous materials with empty shape-switchable pores remains a formidable challenge. Here, the authors fabricate a supramolecular organic framework possessing empty shape-memory nanopores which operates via a ferroelastic transition, endowing it with switchable sorption properties.