Mechanical stimulation and solid seeding trigger single-crystal-to-single- crystal molecular domino transformations

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ito, Hajime ^a   Muromoto, Mai ^a   Kurenuma, Sayaka ^a   Ishizaka, Shoji ^b   Kitamura, Noboru ^a   Sato, Hiroyasu ^c   Seki, Tomohiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIGAKU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GOLD; HEATING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; SOLID; SOLVENT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HEATING; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; SOLID STATE; STIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84879678325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3009     Document Type: Article

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