Soft crystals : flexible response systems with high structural order
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Soft crystals : flexible response systems with high structural order
（The Materials Research Society series）
Materials Research Society , Springer, c2023
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This open access book introduces the science of the new materials, soft crystals, by showing various interesting examples. Different from conventional hard and stable crystals, the soft crystals respond to gentle stimuli such as vapor exposure and rubbing but maintain their structural order. In this book, their exhibition of remarkable visual changes in their shape, color, and luminescence is described. Through the chapters, historical background, recent remarkable developments, and future prospects are described concisely. This book helps readers to understand a new concept of materials that have the characteristics of stimulus-sensitive soft matter and finely controlled crystals and to design novel materials with the characteristics.
The English translation of this book from its Japanese language original manuscript was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The text has subsequently been revised further by a professional copy editor in order to refine the work stylistically.
Table of Contents
Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction
Chapter 1. Background and Overview
Chapter 2. Classification and Definition of "Soft Crystals"
Chapter 3. Theoretical Background of Photophysical Properties
Part II: Various soft crystals categorized by stimulus-response
Chapter 4. Vapochromic Soft Crystals Constructed with Metal Complexes
Chapter 5. Luminescent Mechanochromism and the Photosalient Effect of Aryl Gold(I) Isocyanide Complexes
Chapter 6. Elastic and Plastic Soft Crystals with Superelasticity, Ferroelasticity, and Superplasticity
Chapter 7. Triboluminescence of Lanthanide Complexes
Chapter 8. Thermosalient Phenomena in Molecular Crystals: A Case Study of Representative Molecules
Chapter 9. Soft Crystal Chemiluminescence Systems Using Organic Peroxides
Chapter 10. Molecular Crystal Calculation Prospects for Structural Phase Transitions
Chapter 11. Approach of Electronic Structure Calculations to Crystal
Part III: Scope
Chapter 12. Toward the Applications of Soft Crystals
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