In the last century, molecular crystals functioned predominantly as a means for determining
the molecular structures via X-ray diffraction, albeit as the century came to a close the …

Spontaneous deracemizations is a challenging, multidisciplinary subject in current chirality
research. In the absence of any chiral inductors, an achiral substance or a racemic …

Transformation of energy into motion (work) is one of the basic processes of energy
conversion in nature. The processes of actuation underlying the transduction of light …

The exceptional mechanical flexibility observed with certain organic crystals defies the
common perception of single crystals as brittle objects. Here, we describe the …

Organic crystals are generally brittle and tend to crack under applied stress. Doped organic
crystals are even more brittle because of lattice defects. Herein, the first doped organic …

Crystals of a variety of substances including elements, minerals, simple salts, organic
molecular crystals, and high polymers forgo long‐range translational order by twisting and …

Imidacloprid, the world's leading insecticide, has been approved recently for controlling
infectious disease vectors; yet, in agricultural settings, it has been implicated in the …

Integrating plasticity and elasticity in anisotropic molecular crystals is theoretically possible
and is beneficial in enabling rich and complex deformations; however, it is much harder to …

Many molecular crystals (approximately one third) grow as twisted, helicoidal ribbons from
the melt, and this preponderance is even higher in restricted classes of materials, for …

Biominerals are organic–mineral composites formed by living organisms. They are the
hardest and toughest tissues in those organisms, are often polycrystalline, and their …