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Plastic bending in a semiconducting coordination polymer crystal enabled by delamination

Coordination polymers (CPs) are a class of crystalline solids that are considered brittle, due to the dominance of directional coordination bonding, which limits their utility in flexible electronics and wearable devices. Hence, engineering plasticity into functional CPs is of great importance. Here...

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Autores principales: An, Lian-Cai, Li, Xiang, Li, Zhi-Gang, Li, Qite, Beldon, Patrick J., Gao, Fei-Fei, Li, Zi-Ying, Zhu, Shengli, Di, Lu, Zhao, Sanchuan, Zhu, Jian, Comboni, Davide, Kupenko, Ilya, Li, Wei, Ramamurty, U., Bu, Xian-He
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9636129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36333307
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34351-0
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Sumario:Coordination polymers (CPs) are a class of crystalline solids that are considered brittle, due to the dominance of directional coordination bonding, which limits their utility in flexible electronics and wearable devices. Hence, engineering plasticity into functional CPs is of great importance. Here, we report plastic bending of a semiconducting CP crystal, Cu-Trz (Trz = 1,2,3-triazolate), that originates from delamination facilitated by the discrete bonding interactions along different crystallographic directions in the lattice. The coexistence of strong coordination bonds and weak supramolecular interactions, together with the unique molecular packing, are the structural features that enable the mechanical flexibility and anisotropic response. The spatially resolved analysis of short-range molecular forces reveals that the strong coordination bonds, and the adaptive C–H···π and Cu···Cu interactions, synergistically lead to the delamination of the local structures and consequently the associated mechanical bending. The proposed delamination mechanism offers a versatile tool for designing the plasticity of CPs and other molecular crystals.