Anisotropic Thermal Expansion of p-Terphenyl: a Self-Assembled Supramolecular Array of Poly-p-phenyl Nanoribbons
| Autor: | Giuseppe Chita, E. Bauer, Luisa Barba, Augusto Marcelli, Antonio Bianconi, Lorenza Suber, Gaetano Campi |
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| Jazyk: | Creoles and pidgins, English based |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Superconductivity
Phase transition Nanostructure Materials science Condensed matter physics Transition temperature Superlattice Condensed Matter - Superconductivity FOS: Physical sciences 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Condensed Matter Physics 01 natural sciences Thermal expansion Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Terphenyl 0103 physical sciences 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology Critical exponent Synchrotron X ray diffraction Lattice dynamics Superconductivity |
| Zdroj: | Journal of superconductivity and novel magnetism (2017): 1–8. doi:10.1007/s10948-017-4407-8 info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Barba L.; Chita G.; Campi G.; Suber L.; Bauer E.M.; Marcelli A.; Bianconi A./titolo:Anisotropic Thermal Expansion of p-Terphenyl: a Self-Assembled Supramolecular Array of Poly-p-phenyl Nanoribbons/doi:10.1007%2Fs10948-017-4407-8/rivista:Journal of superconductivity and novel magnetism/anno:2017/pagina_da:1/pagina_a:8/intervallo_pagine:1–8/volume |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10948-017-4407-8 |
| Popis: | The recent discovery of superconductivity in a metallic aromatic hydrocarbon, alkali-doped p-Terphenyl, has attracted considerable interest. The critical temperature Tc ranges from few to 123 K, the record for organic superconductors, due to uncontrolled competition of multiple phases and dopant concentration. In the proposed mechanism of Fano resonance in a superlattice of quantum wires with coexisting polarons and Fermi particles, the lattice properties play a key role. Here we report a study of the temperature evolution of the parent compound p-Terphenyl crystal structure proposed to be made of a self-assembled supramolecular network of nanoscale nanoribbons. Using temperature dependent synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction we report the anisotropic thermal expansion in the ab plane, which supports the presence of a nanoscale network of one-dimensional nanoribbons running in the b-axis direction in the P21/a structure. Below the enantiotropic phase transition at 193 K the order parameter of the C-1 structure follows a power law behaviour with the critical exponent 0.34 and the thermal expansion of the a-axis and b-axis show major changes supporting the formation of a two-dimensional bonds network. The large temperature range of the orientation fluctuations in a double well potential of the central phenyl has been determined. Comment: Journal of Superconductivity Novel Magnetism , 15 pages, 4 figures |
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