Giant anisotropic thermal expansion actuated by thermodynamically assisted reorientation of imidazoliums in a single crystal
Designing materials with large thermal expansion is highly desirable to fabricate microscale devices. The authors report unusually large anisotropic negative and positive thermal expansion in a simple crystalline material, through temperature-driven orientation of imidazole cations acting as molecul...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-10-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12833-y |