A superelastochromic crystal

Toshiki Mutai (), Toshiyuki Sasaki, Shunichi Sakamoto, Isao Yoshikawa, Hirohiko Houjou and Satoshi Takamizawa ()
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Toshiki Mutai: University of Tokyo
Toshiyuki Sasaki: Yokohama City University
Shunichi Sakamoto: Yokohama City University
Isao Yoshikawa: University of Tokyo
Hirohiko Houjou: University of Tokyo
Satoshi Takamizawa: Yokohama City University

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract Chromism—color changes by external stimuli—has been intensively studied to develop smart materials because of easily detectability of the stimuli by eye or common spectroscopy as color changes. Luminescent chromism has particularly attracted research interest because of its high sensitivity. The color changes typically proceed in a one-way, two-state cycle, i.e. a stimulus-induced state will restore the initial state by another stimuli. Chromic systems showing instant, biphasic color switching and spontaneous reversibility will have wider practical applicability. Here we report luminescent chromism having such characteristics shown by mechanically controllable phase transitions in a luminescent organosuperelastic crystal. In mechanochromic luminescence, superelasticity—diffusion-less plastic deformation with spontaneous shape recoverability—enables real-time, reversible, and stepless control of the abundance ratio of biphasic color emissions via a single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation by controlling a single stimulus, force stress. The unique chromic system, referred to as superelastochromism, holds potential for realizing informative molecule-based mechanical sensing.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15663-5

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