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Giant anisotropic thermal expansion actuated by thermodynamically assisted reorientation of imidazoliums in a single crystal.


ABSTRACT: Materials demonstrating unusual large positive and negative thermal expansion are fascinating for their potential applications as high-precision microscale actuators and thermal expansion compensators for normal solids. However, manipulating molecular motion to execute huge thermal expansion of materials remains a formidable challenge. Here, we report a single-crystal Cu(II) complex exhibiting giant thermal expansion actuated by collective reorientation of imidazoliums. The circular molecular cations, which are rotationally disordered at a high temperature and statically ordered at a low temperature, demonstrate significant reorientation in the molecular planes. Such atypical molecular motion, revealed by variable-temperature single crystal X-ray diffraction and solid-state NMR analyses, drives an exceptionally large positive thermal expansion and a negative thermal expansion in a perpendicular direction of the crystal. The consequent large shape change (~10%) of bulk material, with remarkable durability, suggests that this complex is a strong candidate as a microscale thermal actuating material.

SUBMITTER: Yao ZS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6805950 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Giant anisotropic thermal expansion actuated by thermodynamically assisted reorientation of imidazoliums in a single crystal.

Yao Zi-Shuo ZS   Guan Hanxi H   Shiota Yoshihito Y   He Chun-Ting CT   Wang Xiao-Lei XL   Wu Shu-Qi SQ   Zheng Xiaoyan X   Su Sheng-Qun SQ   Yoshizawa Kazunari K   Kong Xueqian X   Sato Osamu O   Tao Jun J  

Nature communications 20191022 1


Materials demonstrating unusual large positive and negative thermal expansion are fascinating for their potential applications as high-precision microscale actuators and thermal expansion compensators for normal solids. However, manipulating molecular motion to execute huge thermal expansion of materials remains a formidable challenge. Here, we report a single-crystal Cu(II) complex exhibiting giant thermal expansion actuated by collective reorientation of imidazoliums. The circular molecular ca  ...[more]

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