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A superelastic organic crystal

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Superelasticity — a form of elasticity that involves a phase transition — has been observed for the first time in a pure organic crystal. The material could find applications in microfluidics.

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Figure 1: Reversible deformation of a single organic crystal.

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  1. Tomiki Ikeda and Toru Ube are in the Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.,

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Ikeda, T., Ube, T. A superelastic organic crystal. Nature 511, 300–301 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/511300a

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