Dielectric Properties of Porous Molecular Crystals That Contain Polar Molecules

✍ Scribed by Heng-Bo Cui; Kazuyuki Takahashi; Yoshinori Okano; Hayao Kobayashi; Zheming Wang; Akiko Kobayashi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 161 KB
• Volume: 117
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/ange.200501867

✦ Synopsis

Molecular materials with porous coordination frameworks have recently drawn considerable interest because of attractive properties arising from the synergy of the host lattice and the guest molecules. These properties include guest-switched spin-crossover transitions, [1] gas sorption, [2] molecular storage, [3] and magnetic solvent sensoring. [4] However, to our knowledge, reports on the dielectric properties of porous molecular materials are rare, although the ferroelectric properties of molecular materials have been studied. [5] As large charges can be induced in the highly polarizable materials upon application of a relatively low electric field, it may be useful to construct novel electronic devices such as