Molecular martensitic materials are an emerging class of smart materials with enormous
tunability in physicochemical properties, attributed to the tailored molecular and crystal …

Recent interest in functional flexible molecular crystals has the potential to provide unique
optoelectronic applications and stimuli-responsive chemistry. In crystal engineering, the …

Ferroelasticity has been reported for several types of molecular crystals, which show
mechanical‐stress‐induced shape change under twinning and/or spontaneous formation of …

As altering permanent shapes without loss of material function is of practical importance for
material molding, especially for elastic materials, shape‐rememorization ability would …

Mechanical twinning changes atomic, molecular, and crystal orientations along with
directions of the anisotropic properties of the crystalline materials while maintaining single …

Under the concept of supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering, cocrystallization is
one of the most widely used approaches for developing physical and other properties of …

Mechanical twinning, which enables crystalline solids to deform reversibly beyond their
elastic limit, has been getting much attention in recent progressive studies on flexible …

Superelasticity—diffusion-less plastic deformation with spontaneous shape recoverability—
has been applied to practical uses due to its unique mechanical characteristics, eg …

The formation of two-component supramolecular polymers can lead to high supramolecular
designability by a combination of different kinds of components in addition to the …

Organic ferroelastics with metal free features and intrinsically light weight are highly
desirable for future applications in flexible, smart and biocompatible devices. However …