2023•Crystal Growth & DesignRequires access
Designing the Mechanical Plasticity of Benzylidene Indanones Based Molecular Crystals by Crystal Engineering
Deepak Manoharan, S. N. Megha, Mangalampalli S. R. N. Kiran, Franziska Emmerling, Biswajit Bhattacharya, Soumyajit Ghosh
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Abstract
We herein report the tuning of mechanical plasticity of a series of 2-benzylidene-1-indanone derivative crystals through controlling intermolecular interactions for the first time. The roles of intermolecular interactions on plastic properties are rationalized by nanoindentation and energy framework calculations.