Nature Communications (May 2022)

Exceptionally high work density of a ferroelectric dynamic organic crystal around room temperature

  • Durga Prasad Karothu,
  • Rodrigo Ferreira,
  • Ghada Dushaq,
  • Ejaz Ahmed,
  • Luca Catalano,
  • Jad Mahmoud Halabi,
  • Zainab Alhaddad,
  • Ibrahim Tahir,
  • Liang Li,
  • Sharmarke Mohamed,
  • Mahmoud Rasras,
  • Panče Naumov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30541-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Organic electronics requires dynamic materials, however, most of them have small strokes and operate at high temperatures. Here, the authors describe organic crystal that repeatedly expands and contracts nearly half its length around room temperature.