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A Fabrication and Measurement Method for a Flexible Ferroelectric Element Based on Van Der Waals Heteroepitaxy
Published on: April 8, 2018
Chemically and electrochemically induced expansion and contraction of a ferrocene rotor
Synøve Ø Scottwell1, Anastasia B S Elliott, Karl J Shaffer
1Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. jcrowley@chemistry.otago.ac.nz.
Abstract:
A 2,2'-bipyridine-appended ferrocene rotor, 1,1'-di(5-yl-ethynyl-2,2'-bipyridine)ferrocene, can be switched from a folded/stacked (syn) conformation to an extended/unstacked (anti) conformation by the addition of [Cu(CH3CN)4](PF6) and 6,6'-dimesityl-2,2'-bipyridine. This extension and contraction process was completely reversible and could be triggered either chemically or electrochemically.
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