title: Metal-organic complex ferroelectrics.
abstract: Ferroelectric materials are of importance and interest in both fundamental scientific research and various technological applications. Metal-organic complexes (MOCs) represent a class of molecule-based ferroelectrics, which have shown various properties or functionalities due to their hybrid inorganic-organic nature. This tutorial review shows the recent development of the MOC ferroelectrics with particular emphases on the mechanism of ferroelectric-to-paraelectric phase transition, symmetry consideration, and multifunctionality.
authors.affiliation: Ordered Matter Science Research Center, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, PR China.
authors.forename: Tian
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hang
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Heng-Yun
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Ren-Gen
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Xiong