Samenvatting
Amide-based discotic supramolecular organic materials are of interest for fundamental understanding of cooperative self-assembly and collective dipole switching mechanisms as well as for practically relevant ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties. Here, we show how replacing amides (dipole moment of ∼3.5 D) with thioamides (∼5.1 D) as dipolar moieties in the archetypal C3-symmetric discotic molecule BTA leads to ferroelectric materials with a higher remnant polarization and lower coercive field. The thioamide-based materials also demonstrate a rare negative piezoelectricity and a previously predicted, yet never experimentally observed, polarization reversal via asymmetric intermediate states, that is, ferrielectric switching.
Originele taal-2 | Engels |
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Pagina's (van-tot) | 16930-16937 |
Aantal pagina's | 8 |
Tijdschrift | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics |
Volume | 25 |
Nummer van het tijdschrift | 25 |
DOI's | |
Status | Gepubliceerd - 7 jul. 2023 |
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Financiering
We would like to thank Prof. Beatriz Noheda Pinuaga for the opportunity to use the piezoelectric response measurement equipment and Anja R. A. Palmans and Tim D. Cornelissen for stimulating discussions and commenting on the manuscript. We also acknowledge technical support and help from Jacob Baas and Yingfen Wei during the piezoelectric measurements. I. U. acknowledges funding by Vetenskapsrådet (project no. 2015-03813). M. G. I. thanks Santander Talent Attraction Research (STAR2) and financial support from Spanish MINECO (PID2021-125429NA-I00). M. K. thanks the Carl Zeiss Foundation for financial support.