Room-temperature ferroelectricity in supramolecular networks of charge-transfer complexes

Nature

Volumn 488, Issue 7412, 2012, Pages 485-489

  Tayi, Alok S ^a   Shveyd, Alexander K ^b   Sue, Andrew C H ^b,c   Szarko, Jodi M ^b,d   Rolczynski, Brian S ^b,d   Cao, Dennis ^b,e   Jackson Kennedy, T ^b   Sarjeant, Amy A ^b   Stern, Charlotte L ^b   Paxton, Walter F ^b   Wu, Wei ^a   Dey, Sanjeev K ^b   Fahrenbach, Albert C ^b,e   Guest, Jeffrey R ^d   Mohseni, Hooman ^a   Chen, Lin X ^b,d,e   Wang, Kang L ^c   Fraser Stoddart, J ^b,e   Stupp, Samuel I ^a,b,f  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN BOND; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; HYDROGEN BONDING; IRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84865226406     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11395     Document Type: Article

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