Hybrid Molecular Ferroelectrics-Hallmarks and Design
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2021) | Viewed by 2857
Special Issue Editors
Interests: XRPD at ambient and non-ambient conditions; structure solution from XRPD data; synthesis/characterization of hybrid molecular ferroelectrics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Intensive research on molecular ferroelectrics (MFs) with controllable magnetoelectric (ME) properties has triggered a targeted quest for developing reproducible synthetic pathways to prepare hybrid ferroelectrics hallmarking multiple bistability. As a first and mandatory step, rational synthesis defines the key features of the final product, leading to one of the most critical obstacles that are still challenging researchers today—how to single out the molecular ferroelectrics from the numerous crystalline materials? Thus, one of the major driving forces delicately correlates the symmetry-breaking phenomena during the paraelectric-to-ferroelectric phase transition in MFs and resulting functional properties, thus highlighting a mandatory role of structural investigations in the course of ME response tuning.
The Special Issue on “Hybrid Molecular Ferroelectrics—Hallmarks and Design” outlines up-to-date progress in the bistable molecular ferroelectrics’ family by delivering specific breakthroughs captured using pressure/temperature-induced X-ray powder diffraction experiments along with detailed electrical and magnetic measurements.
Dr. Martina Vrankić
Dr. Takeshi Nakagawa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hybrid improper ferroelectricity
- magnetoelectric coupling
- symmetry breaking
- powder diffraction at ambient and non-ambient conditions
- paraelectric-to-ferroelectric phase transition
