A porous supramolecular ionic solid

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Jul 28;57(59):7248-7251. doi: 10.1039/d1cc02806e. Epub 2021 Jun 30.

Abstract

We report a synthetic strategy to integrate discrete coordination cages into extended porous materials by decorating opposite charges on the singular cage, which offers multidirectional electrostatic forces among cages and leads to a porous supramolecular ionic solid. The resulting material is non-centrosymmetric and affords a piezoelectric coefficient of 8.19 pC N-1, higher than that of the wurtzite ZnO.