Proton dynamics in novel organic ferroelectric materials

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The vast majority of known ferroelectrics are inorganic compounds such as barium titanate and potassium dihydrogen phosphate. Contrary to naïve expectation, ferroelectricity in organic materials has proven quite elusive to date. In a groundbreaking study earlier this year, croconic acid has been shown to display ferroelectricity above room temperature. From a chemical viewpoint, this molecule belongs to a series of planar monocyclic compounds whose ferroelectric behaviour remains unexplored. The lightest members of this series include deltic, squaric, croconic, and rhodizonic acid. This chemical series represents an ideal test bed to explore how molecular topology maps onto organic ferroelectric, antiferroelectric, and paraelectric behaviour in the solid state. In this proposal, OSIRIS will be used to survey the proton dynamics in this novel class of materials for the first time.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24086433
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24086433
Provenance
Creator Dr Matthias Gutmann; Professor Felix Fernandez-Alonso; Dr Marek Jura; Dr Armin Wagner; Dr Matthew Krzystyniak; Dr Selena Richards
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-07-12T10:58:05Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-06-02T08:24:13Z