Hiroko Tokoro, Yusuke Araki, Iori Nagata, et al. Synthesis of nanosize tetratitanium heptoxide and its anomalous phase transition[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2020, 8(7): 261-267.
DOI:
Hiroko Tokoro, Yusuke Araki, Iori Nagata, et al. Synthesis of nanosize tetratitanium heptoxide and its anomalous phase transition[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2020, 8(7): 261-267.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2020.1743788.
Synthesis of nanosize tetratitanium heptoxide and its anomalous phase transition
is known to exhibit a two-step phase transition from the charge-delocalized to charge-localized phase and the charge-disordered to charge-ordered phase around 150 K and 130 K
respectively. Herein
a nanoscopic effect of the Ti
4
O
7
phase transition is studied. A one-step phase transition from the charge-delocalized to charge-localized phase is realized in Ti
4
O
7
nanocrystals where the transition from the charge-disordered to charge-ordered phase is suppressed. Perturbation to the free energy by the surface energy can explain this anomalous phase transition. The present nanoscopic effect
which can control cooperativity in phase transitions
should contribute to develop advanced switching materials.