Plastic bending in a semiconducting coordination polymer crystal enabled by delamination

Coordination polymers are normally considered to be brittle due to the dominance of directional coordination bonding. Here the authors report the plastic bending in a semiconducting coordination polymer crystal enabled by delamination.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lian-Cai An, Xiang Li, Zhi-Gang Li, Qite Li, Patrick J. Beldon, Fei-Fei Gao, Zi-Ying Li, Shengli Zhu, Lu Di, Sanchuan Zhao, Jian Zhu, Davide Comboni, Ilya Kupenko, Wei Li, U. Ramamurty, Xian-He Bu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34351-0