We then harnessed cooperative behaviors for the design and application of novel organic electronic switching behavior. Not only were we able to tune the conductivity by orders of magnitude via the structural changes, but we could also use the mechanical effects to sever the connection with one of the PEDOT:PSS contacts. By taking advantage of the mechanical effects of the cooperative shape change, we could switch on and off a single crystal device through rapid temperature actuation. This opens the door for fusing the novel mechanical effects of cooperative transitions with device architecture for new functionality. Ultimately, understanding the origin of these transition mechanisms offers pathways to rationally designing organic semiconductors to access cooperative transitions with these exciting properties.