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Giant barocaloric tunability in [(CH3CH2CH2)4N]Cd[N(CN)2]3 hybrid perovskite

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Bermúdez-García, JM 
Yáñez-Vilar, S 
García-Fernández, A 
Sánchez-Andújar, M 
Castro-García, S 

Abstract

We report the barocaloric performance of cadmium-dicyanamide perovskite [(CH3CH2CH2)4N]Cd[N(CN)2]3 ([TPrA]Cd[dca]3). The introduction of Cd, a large second-row post-transition metal, into this hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite structure leads to three separate thermally driven phase transitions and four polymorphs, which we characterize in full using temperature-dependent X-ray diffraction and temperature-dependent calorimetry. Amongst these transitions, the non-isochoric orthorhombic to tetragonal phase transition at high temperatures, with a large volume change of ∼0.4%, leads to a large reversible pressure-driven isothermal change in entropy of ∼11.5 J K-1 kg-1, and a giant barocaloric tunability of the transition temperature with pressure of ∼38.2 K kbar-1, which are both desirable for future low-pressure barocaloric cooling applications.

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Keywords

3402 Inorganic Chemistry, 3403 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, 34 Chemical Sciences, 3406 Physical Chemistry

Journal Title

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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Journal ISSN

2050-7534
2050-7526

Volume Title

6

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

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Sponsorship
European Research Council (680032)
The authors are grateful for financial support from Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MINECO and EU-FEDER (project MAT2017-86453-R), and ERC Starting Grant no 680032. J. M. B. G. acknowledges Xunta de Galicia for a Postdoctoral Fellowship. X. M. is grateful for support from the Royal Society.