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Record high-Tc and large practical utilization level of electric polarization in metal-free molecular antiferroelectric solid solutions

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  • Haojie Xu

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Wuqian Guo

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Yu Ma

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Yi Liu

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Xinxin Hu

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Lina Hua

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Shiguo Han

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China)

  • Xitao Liu

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China)

  • Junhua Luo

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China)

  • Zhihua Sun

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China)

Abstract

Metal-free antiferroelectric materials are holding a promise for energy storage application, owing to their unique merits of wearability, environmental friendliness, and structure tunability. Despite receiving great interests, metal-free antiferroelectrics are quite limited and it is a challenge to acquire new soft antiferroelectric candidates. Here, we have successfully exploited binary CMBrxI1-x and CMBrxCl1-x solid solution as single crystals (0 ≤ x ≤ 1, where CM is cyclohexylmethylammonium). A molecule-level modification can effectively enhance Curie temperature. Emphatically, the binary CM-chloride salt shows the highest antiferroelectric-to-paraelectric Curie temperature of ~453 K among the known molecular antiferroelectrics. Its characteristic double electrical hysteresis loops provide a large electric polarization up to ~11.4 μC/cm2, which endows notable energy storage behaviors. To our best knowledge, this work provides an effective solid-solution methodology to the targeted design of new metal-free antiferroelectric candidates toward biocompatible energy storage devices.

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  • Haojie Xu & Wuqian Guo & Yu Ma & Yi Liu & Xinxin Hu & Lina Hua & Shiguo Han & Xitao Liu & Junhua Luo & Zhihua Sun, 2022. "Record high-Tc and large practical utilization level of electric polarization in metal-free molecular antiferroelectric solid solutions," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-33039-9
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33039-9
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