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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Performance of molecular crystals in conversion of light to mechanical work.

Jad Mahmoud Halabi, Ejaz Ahmed, Samuel Sofela, Panče Naumov

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. ConvergingCrystEngComm · 2026
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  3. Abrupt and Reversible Stretching in an Azobenzene Single Crystal via Thermal Phase Transition.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  4. Tautomerism induces bending and twisting of biogenic crystals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Photomechanical Crystals as Light-Activated Organic Soft Microrobots.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024
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  10. Donor-Acceptor-Donor 1Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  15. Photochemical Energy Conversion with Artificial Molecular Machines.Energy & fuels : an American Chemical Society journal · 2021
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  16. Understanding the Molecular Origin of the Collective Movement in a Diarylethene-based Photo-Responsive Actuator.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jad Mahmoud HalabiSmart Materials Lab (SML), Division of Science and Mathematics, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-0834-6263
Ejaz AhmedSmart Materials Lab (SML), Division of Science and Mathematics, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-3676-2950
Samuel SofelaDivision of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-8709-8084
Panče NaumovSmart Materials Lab (SML), Division of Science and Mathematics, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; pance.naumov@nyu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2416-6569

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dynamic molecular crystals have recently received ample attention as an emerging class of energy-transducing materials, yet have fallen short of developing into fully realized actuators. Through the

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actuatorsazobenzenesmolecular crystalsphotochemistrysoft materials

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PMID33495317
PMCPMC7865161

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