Plastic bending in a semiconducting coordination polymer crystal enabled by delamination

Lian-Cai An; Xiang Li; Zhi-Gang Li; Qite Li; Patrick J. Beldon; Fei-Fei Gao; Zi-Ying Li; Shengli Zhu; Lu Di; Sanchuan Zhao; Jian Zhu; Davide Comboni; Ilya Kupenko; Wei Li; U. Ramamurty; Xian-He Bu

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34351-0

Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Plastic bending in a semiconducting coordination polymer crystal enabled by delamination

Lian-Cai An,
Xiang Li,
Zhi-Gang Li,
Qite Li,
Patrick J. Beldon,
Fei-Fei Gao,
Zi-Ying Li,
Shengli Zhu,
Lu Di,
Sanchuan Zhao,
Jian Zhu,
Davide Comboni,
Ilya Kupenko,
Wei Li,
U. Ramamurty,
Xian-He Bu

Affiliations

Lian-Cai An: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Xiang Li: Institut für Mineralogie, University of Münster
Zhi-Gang Li: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Qite Li: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University
Patrick J. Beldon: Cortirio, NETPark, North East Technology Park
Fei-Fei Gao: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Zi-Ying Li: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Shengli Zhu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University
Lu Di: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Sanchuan Zhao: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Jian Zhu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
Davide Comboni: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 avenue des Martyrs
Ilya Kupenko: Institut für Mineralogie, University of Münster
Wei Li: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
U. Ramamurty: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Xian-He Bu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34351-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Coordination polymers are normally considered to be brittle due to the dominance of directional coordination bonding. Here the authors report the plastic bending in a semiconducting coordination polymer crystal enabled by delamination.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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