Solid solutions of flexible host–guest supramolecules for tuning molecular motion and phase transitions

Abstract

By utilizing a supramolecular complex rather than an individual molecule as a deformable and elastic substitutional component, we put forward a solid-solution strategy and demonstrate an example of how two related yet non-isostructural crystalline host–guest compounds can form molecular solid solutions. Interestingly, such a strategy can effectively and continuously modulate the molecular motion and phase transition in them, as revealed by the variable-temperature/frequency dielectric responses.