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Kinematic and Mechanical Profile of the Self-Actuation of Thermosalient Crystal Twins of 1,2,4,5-Tetrabromobenzene: A Molecular Crystalline Analogue of a Bimetallic Strip
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2013-09-18
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Sahoo, Subash Chandra
Sinha, Shashi Bhushan
Kiran, M. S. R. N.
Ramamurty, Upadrasta
Dericioğlu, Arcan Fehmi
Reddy, C. Malla
Naumov, Pance
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A paradigm shift from hard to flexible, organic-based optoelectronics requires fast and reversible mechanical response from actuating materials that are used for conversion of heat or light into mechanical motion. As the limits in the response times of polymer-based actuating materials are reached, which are inherent to the less-than-optimal coupling between the light/heat and mechanical energy in them, 1 a conceptually new approach to mechanical actuation is required to leapfrog the performance of organic actuators. Herein, we explore single crystals of 1,2,4,5-tetrabromobenzene (TBB) as actuating elements and establish relations between their kinematic profile and mechanical properties. Centimeter-size acicular crystals of TBB are the only naturally twinned crystals out of about a dozen known materials that exhibit the thermosalient effect-an extremely rare and visually impressive crystal locomotion. When taken over a phase transition, crystals of this material store mechanical strain and are rapidly self-actuated to sudden jumps to release the internal strain, leaping up to several centimeters. To establish the structural basis for this colossal crystal motility, we investigated the mechanical profile of the crystals from macroscale, in response to externally induced deformation under microscope, to nanoscale, by using nanoindentation. Kinematic analysis based on high-speed recordings of over 200 twinned TBB crystals exposed to directional or nondirectional heating unraveled that the crystal locomotion is a kinematically complex phenomenon that includes at least six kinematic effects. The nanoscale tests confirm the highly elastic nature, with an elastic deformation recovery (60%) that is far superior to those of molecular crystals reported earlier. This property appears to be critical for accumulation of stress required for crystal jumping. Twinned crystals of TBB exposed to moderate directional heating behave as all-organic analogue of a bimetallic 'strip, where the lattice misfit between the two crystal components drives reveriible deformation of the crystal.
Subject Keywords
Photomechanical response
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Jumping crystals
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Intermolecular interactions
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Phase-transition
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Single-crystal
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Shape changes
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Light
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Driven
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Manoindentation
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Deformation
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/33300
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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja4056323
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Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Article
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S. C. Sahoo et al., “Kinematic and Mechanical Profile of the Self-Actuation of Thermosalient Crystal Twins of 1,2,4,5-Tetrabromobenzene: A Molecular Crystalline Analogue of a Bimetallic Strip,”
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
, pp. 13843–13850, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/33300.