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Facile Control of Ferroelectricity Driven by Ingenious Interaction Engineering.

Jun-Yi LiTie ZhangMeng-Meng LunYi ZhangLi-Zhuang ChenDa-Wei Fu
Published in: Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2023)
Construction of ferroelectric and optimization of macroscopic polarization has attracted tremendous attention for next generation light weight and flexible devices, which brings fundamental vitality for molecular ferroelectrics. However, effective molecular tailoring toward cations makes ferroelectric synthesis and modification relatively elaborate. Here, the study proposes a facile method to realize triggering and optimization of ferroelectricity. The experimental and theoretical investigation reveals that orientation and alignment of polar cations, dominated factors in molecular ferroelectrics, can be controlled by easily processed anionic modification. In one respect, ferroelectricity is induced by strengthened intermolecular interaction. Moreover, ≈50% of microscopic polarization enhancement (from 8.07 to 11.68 µC cm -2 ) and doubling of equivalent polarization direction (from 4 to 8) are realized in resultant ferroelectric FEtQ2ZnBrI 3 (FEQZBI, FEtQ = N-fluoroethyl-quinuclidine). The work offers a totally novel platform for control of ferroelectricity in organic-inorganic hybrid ferroelectrics and a deep insight of structure-property correlations.
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