A new ferroelastic hybrid material with a large spontaneous strain: (Me3NOH)2[ZnCl4]

Wei Yuan; Ying Zeng; Ya-Yin Tan; Jian-Hua Zhou; Wei-Jian Xu; Wei-Xiong Zhang; Xiao-Ming Chen

doi:10.1039/C9CC03862K

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A new ferroelastic hybrid material with a large spontaneous strain: (Me₃NOH)₂[ZnCl₄]†

Wei Yuan,^a Ying Zeng,^a Ya-Yin Tan,^b Jian-Hua Zhou,

^b Wei-Jian Xu,*^ac Wei-Xiong Zhang

*^a and Xiao-Ming Chen

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^a MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
E-mail: zhangwx6@mail.sysu.edu.cn

^b Key Laboratory of Sensing Technology and Biomedical Instruments of Guangdong Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

^c Department of Chemistry & CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
E-mail: weijxu@ua.pt

Abstract

A new hybrid compound (Me₃NOH)₂[ZnCl₄] undergoes an above-room-temperature mmmF2/m ferroelastic phase transition and exhibits a large spontaneous strain of 0.129, owing to an order–disorder transition of organic cations.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC03862K
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 18 May 2019
Accepted: 02 Jul 2019
First published: 02 Jul 2019

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Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 8983-8986

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A new ferroelastic hybrid material with a large spontaneous strain: (Me₃NOH)₂[ZnCl₄]

W. Yuan, Y. Zeng, Y. Tan, J. Zhou, W. Xu, W. Zhang and X. Chen, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 8983 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC03862K

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