Low temperature phase transitions in ferroelectric tris-sarcosine calcium chloride (TSCC)

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Small-molecule based ferroelectrics offer several advantages over the currently used materials based on heavy metal oxides (i.e. cost, environmental-friendliness). There are relatively few well-characterised examples of molecular ferroelectrics, in part since the relevant crystallographic studies have relied on X-ray diffraction. Neutron diffraction is the key technique in understanding the behaviour of H-atoms in molecular crystals. Here, we propose to study a well-known but still poorly understood 'model' molecular ferroelectric, TSCC, based on an amino-acid-salt complex. TSCC is proposed to have four phases as a function of temperature, with transitions at 130, 64 and 42 K. The two highest T phases have been characterised structurally, but only by XRD. Information on the behaviour of H-atoms is essential. The lower two phases have not yet been studied at all, crystallographically.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73942393
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73942393
Provenance
Creator Ms Charlotte Dixon; Dr Silvia Capelli; Professor James Scott; Dr Rebecca Clulow; Dr Finlay Morrison; Professor Phil Lightfoot; Ms Wenjiao Yao
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-03-09T10:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-03-15T10:00:00Z