Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Proton switching molecular magnetoelectricity

  • Yong Hu,
  • Scott Broderick,
  • Zipeng Guo,
  • Alpha T. N’Diaye,
  • Jaspal S. Bola,
  • Hans Malissa,
  • Cheng Li,
  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Yulong Huang,
  • Quanxi Jia,
  • Christoph Boehme,
  • Z. Valy Vardeny,
  • Chi Zhou,
  • Shenqiang Ren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24941-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Compared to inorganic materials, the magnetoelectric coupling in macromolecules is still hidden. Here, the authors describe machine learning coupled with additive manufacturing to accelerate the discovery of multiferroic macromolecules with a proton-mediated magnetoelectric coupling effect.