TY - JOUR
T1 - The Rise of the Dynamic Crystals
AU - Naumov, Panče
AU - Karothu, Durga Prasad
AU - Ahmed, Ejaz
AU - Catalano, Luca
AU - Commins, Patrick
AU - Mahmoud Halabi, Jad
AU - Al-Handawi, Marieh B.
AU - Li, Liang
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by New York University Abu Dhabi.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/8/5
Y1 - 2020/8/5
N2 - The anticipated shift in the focal point of interest of solid-state chemists, crystal engineers, and crystallographers from structure to properties to function parallels the need to apply our accumulated understanding of the intricacies of crystal structure to explaining the related properties, with the ultimate goal of harnessing that knowledge in applications that require soft, lightweight, or biocompatible organic solids. In these developments, the adaptive molecular crystals warrant particular attention as an alternative choice of materials for light, flexible, and environmentally benign devices, primarily memories, capacitors, sensors, and actuators. Some of the outstanding requirements for the application of these dynamic materials as high-efficiency energy-storage devices are strongly induced polarization, a high switching field, and narrow hysteresis in the case of reversible dynamic processes. However, having been studied almost exclusively by chemists, molecular crystals still lack the appropriate investigations that reliably evaluate their reproducibility, scalability, and actuating performance, and some important drawbacks have diverted the interest of engineers from these materials in applications. United under the umbrella term crystal adaptronics, the recent research efforts aim to realistically assess the appositeness of dynamic crystals for applications that require fast, reversible, and continuous operation over prolonged periods of time. With the aim of highlighting the most recent developments, this Perspective discusses their assets and pitfalls. It also provides some hints on the likely future developments that capitalize on the untapped, sequestered potential of this distinct materials class for applications.
AB - The anticipated shift in the focal point of interest of solid-state chemists, crystal engineers, and crystallographers from structure to properties to function parallels the need to apply our accumulated understanding of the intricacies of crystal structure to explaining the related properties, with the ultimate goal of harnessing that knowledge in applications that require soft, lightweight, or biocompatible organic solids. In these developments, the adaptive molecular crystals warrant particular attention as an alternative choice of materials for light, flexible, and environmentally benign devices, primarily memories, capacitors, sensors, and actuators. Some of the outstanding requirements for the application of these dynamic materials as high-efficiency energy-storage devices are strongly induced polarization, a high switching field, and narrow hysteresis in the case of reversible dynamic processes. However, having been studied almost exclusively by chemists, molecular crystals still lack the appropriate investigations that reliably evaluate their reproducibility, scalability, and actuating performance, and some important drawbacks have diverted the interest of engineers from these materials in applications. United under the umbrella term crystal adaptronics, the recent research efforts aim to realistically assess the appositeness of dynamic crystals for applications that require fast, reversible, and continuous operation over prolonged periods of time. With the aim of highlighting the most recent developments, this Perspective discusses their assets and pitfalls. It also provides some hints on the likely future developments that capitalize on the untapped, sequestered potential of this distinct materials class for applications.
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U2 - 10.1021/jacs.0c05440
DO - 10.1021/jacs.0c05440
M3 - Article
C2 - 32559073
AN - SCOPUS:85089617672
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 142
SP - 13256
EP - 13272
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 31
ER -