“…A very few cases of single-component organic materials with colossal PTE and NTE effects, i.e., coefficient of thermal expansion, CTE > ± 100 × 10 –6 K –1 , are reported in the literature. ,, Various inorganic systems such as oxides ,,,, and metal cyanide, , coordination polymers, , and metal–organic frameworks ,,, are known to exhibit NTE and ZTE characteristics. ZTE behavior in organic molecular materials is seldom due to the difficulty in controlling the ubiquitous complex supramolecular interactions . Recently, we have reported a near ZTE characteristic along with anisotropic NTE and PTE characteristics in an imidazole-based single-component system .…”