Response to "On the giant deformation and ferroelectricity of guanidinium nitrate" by Marek Szafrański and Andrzej Katrusiak

Durga Prasad Karothu; Rodrigo Ferreira; Ghada Dushaq; Ejaz Ahmed; Luca Catalano; Jad Mahmoud Halabi; Zainab Alhaddad; Ibrahim Tahir; Liang Li; Sharmarke Mohamed; Mahmoud Rasras; Panče Naumov

arXiv · 2303.04028

Response to "On the giant deformation and ferroelectricity of guanidinium nitrate" by Marek Szafrański and Andrzej Katrusiak

Durga Prasad Karothu·Rodrigo Ferreira·Ghada Dushaq·Ejaz Ahmed·Luca Catalano·Jad Mahmoud Halabi·Zainab Alhaddad·Ibrahim Tahir·Liang Li·Sharmarke Mohamed·Mahmoud Rasras·Panče Naumov

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Following a well-established practice of publishing commentaries to articles of other authors who work on materials that were earlier studied by them (n.b. six published comments[1-6]), Marek Szafrański(MS) and Andrzej Katrusiak (AK) have filed on the preprint server arXiv a manuscript entitled "On the giant deformation and ferroelectricity of guanidinium nitrate"[7] with comments on our article "Exceptionally high work density of a ferroelectric dynamic organic crystal around room temperature" published in Nature Communications (2022, 13, 2823).[8] Both in the submitted comment as well as in the required (by the journal) direct communication with us preceding its posting, MS and AK have expressed dissatisfaction with the choice of literature references in our article, for which they felt that their previous work on this material has not been cited to a sufficient extent. In their comment, they summarize their other remarks on our article as "the structural determinations of GN [guanidinium nitrate] crystals, their phase transitions and associated giant deformation, as well as its detailed structural mechanism, the molecular dynamics and dielectric properties were reported before, while the semiconductivity, ferroelectricity, and fatigue resistance of the GN [guanidinium nitrate] crystals cannot be confirmed."[7] Apart from the sentiments of MS and AK on our choice of cited literature, we find their comments on the scientific content of our article to be strongly biased towards their own results and unfounded. Below, we provide a detailed response to their comments.

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Durga Prasad Karothu, Rodrigo Ferreira, Ghada Dushaq, Ejaz Ahmed, Luca Catalano, Jad Mahmoud Halabi, Zainab Alhaddad, Ibrahim Tahir, Liang Li, Sharmarke Mohamed, Mahmoud Rasras, Panče Naumov. 2023-09-07. Response to "On the giant deformation and ferroelectricity of guanidinium nitrate" by Marek Szafrański and Andrzej Katrusiak. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04028

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