Mechanically interlocked architecture aids an ultra-stiff and ultra-hard elastically bendable cocrystal
Molecular crystals are typically less stiff than metals or ceramics. Here the authors report an organic elastically bendable co-crystal with stiffness comparable to low-density metals, hardness similar to stainless steel and reveal the molecular mechanism which lead to these mechanical properties.
Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Somnath Dey,
Susobhan Das,
Surojit Bhunia,
Rituparno Chowdhury,
Amit Mondal,
Biswajit Bhattacharya,
Ramesh Devarapalli,
Nobuhiro Yasuda,
Taro Moriwaki,
Kapil Mandal,
Goutam Dev Mukherjee,
C. Malla Reddy |
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| Format: | Article
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Nature Publishing Group
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11657-0
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