Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of the American Chemical Society
3 years ago

Colossal Volume Contraction in Strong Polar Perovskites of Pb(Ti,V)O3

Colossal Volume Contraction in Strong Polar Perovskites of Pb(Ti,V)O3
Masaki Azuma, Guangqiang Li, Hajime Yamamoto, Xingxing Jiang, Huazhi Gu, Xianran Xing, Runze Yu, Zheshuai Lin, Zhao Pan, Yuichiro Hattori, Lei Hu, Fangmin Guo, Yang Ren, Xi’an Fan, Yawei Li, Jun Chen, Takahiro Ogata
The unique physical property of negative thermal expansion (NTE) is not only interesting for scientific research but also important for practical applications. Chemical modification generally tends to weaken NTE. It remains a challenge to obtain enhanced NTE from currently available materials. Herein, we successfully achieve enhanced NTE in Pb(Ti1–xVx)O3 by improving its ferroelectricity. With the chemical substitution of vanadium, lattice tetragonality (c/a) is highly promoted, which is attributed to strong spontaneous polarization, evidenced by the enhanced covalent interaction in the V/Ti–O and Pb–O2 bonds from first-principles calculations. As a consequence, Pb(Ti0.9V0.1)O3 exhibits a nonlinear and much stronger NTE over a wide temperature range with a volumetric coefficient of thermal expansion αV = −3.76 × 10–5/°C (25–550 °C). Interestingly, an intrinsic giant volume contraction (∼3.7%) was obtained at the composition of Pb(Ti0.7V0.3)O3 during the ferroelectric-to-paraelectric phase transition, which represents the highest value ever reported. Such volume contraction is well correlated to the effect of spontaneous volume ferroelectrostriction. The present study extends the scope of the NTE family and provides an effective approach to explore new materials with large NTE, such as through adjusting the NTE-related ferroelectric property in the family of ferroelectrics.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b08625

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08625

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