Molecule-displacive ferroelectricity in organic supramolecular solids

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ye, Heng Yun ^a,b   Zhang, Yi ^b   Noro, Shin Ichiro ^a   Kubo, Kazuya ^a   Yoshitake, Masashi ^a   Liu, Zun Qi ^a   Cai, Hong Ling ^b   Fu, Da Wei ^b   Yoshikawa, Hirofumi ^c   Awaga, Kunio ^c   Xiong, Ren Gen ^b   Nakamura, Takayoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84880906481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02249     Document Type: Article

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