Perfect Polar Alignment of Parallel Beloamphiphile Layers: Improved Structural Design Bias Realized in Ferroelectric Crystals of the Novel "Methoxyphenyl Series of Acetophenone Azines"

Harmeet Bhoday; Nathan Knotts; Rainer Glaser

doi:10.1002/chem.202401197

Perfect Polar Alignment of Parallel Beloamphiphile Layers: Improved Structural Design Bias Realized in Ferroelectric Crystals of the Novel "Methoxyphenyl Series of Acetophenone Azines"

Chemistry. 2024 Apr 15:e202401197. doi: 10.1002/chem.202401197. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Harmeet Bhoday¹, Nathan Knotts², Rainer Glaser¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, 65409, USA.
² Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.

PMID: 38621229
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202401197

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue are Harmeet Bhoday, Nathan Knotts, and Rainer Glaser at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Joe Miner, the university mascot, is a silent and honorary co-author and personifies the spirit of the old west and the determination to succeed (our emphasis). The image depicts one (MeO-Ph, Y)-azine molecule and a model of a perfectly polar stacked bilayer. The floodlight illumination presents a graphic metaphor of second-harmonic generation (frequency doubling) by the crystalline ferroelectric materials. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202400182.