Local structure of a barocaloric framework material

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Barocaloric materials, in which a large isothermal entropy change is associated with a pressure-induced phase transition, offer an alternative to vapour-compression techniques that rely on refrigerants that contribute to global warming and ozone depletion. The framework material TPrAMn(dca)3 has recently been shown to have a giant barocaloric effect, due to an order-disorder phase transition involving both the dca and TPrA ions. Crystallographic disorder of both ions in both the low- and high-symmetry phases makes structural characterisation extremely challenging, yet it is precisely this disorder that accounts for the material’s behaviour. The aim of this proposal is to achieve a quantitative understanding of this disorder by collecting high-resolution pair distribution functions from total scattering. This will complete the picture of the material’s local structure for the first time.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2010263-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/109983480
Provenance
Creator Dr Helen Walker; Mr Guanqun Cai; Miss Bernet Meijer; Dr Anthony Phillips; Professor David Keen; Dr Richard Dixey
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2023
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2020-03-05T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-03-09T15:24:46Z