Studying how healthy and ailing bodies move in the world around them can inform medical care. One approach towards developing solution-processable pressure sensors with high sensitivity for bio-mechanical sensor applications is to utilize hybrid organic-inorganic hybrid halometallates as the force sensing materials. Halometallates have the formula AmBnXm+n, where A is an organic cation, B is a metal cation, and X is a halide anion. Here, we describe the screening and discovery of novel piezoelectric hybrid halometallates, which turn force into an electric charge, and their mechanical properties in both single crystal and thin film form are described.
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