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These crystals can do some crazy things. One recent paper reports crystals that ripple like snakes as their molecules rearrange from one polymorph to another at their phase-transition temperature. And another displays the surprising elasticity of a coordination polymer with puckered, eight-membered rings forming its backbone.
Reporting in Journal of the American Chemical Society, “Frozen Interphase Domain and Mechanism of the Snakelike Macroscopic Motion in a Dynamic Crystal Solvate.”
Read the paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.6c02665
(Corresponding author: Roberto Centore, Ph.D.)
Reporting in Crystal Growth & Design, “Remarkable Bending Strains of One-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Elastic Crystals Supported by Bridging Carboxylate Linkers.”
Read the paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.5c01383
(Corresponding authors: Shu-wen An, Ph.D., Yuan-yuan Cheng, Ph.D., and Lei Mei, Ph.D.)
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Video credits:
Written and produced by Anne Hylden
Editing and animations by Janali Thompson
Narrated and hosted by Anne Hylden
Series produced by Vangie Koonce, Anne Hylden, Andrew Sobey, Janali Thompson, Darren Weaver, and Jefferson Beck
Executive produced by Matthew Radcliff
Research videos by Shu-wen An, Ph.D., Durga Prasad Karothu, Ph.D., Emmanuele Parisi, Ph.D., and Roberto Centore, Ph.D.
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