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Bing Sun1, Xiao-Fei Liu1, Xiang-Yang Li1
1State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Two-dimensional (2D) hybrid perovskites have shown many attractive properties associated with their soft lattices and multiple quantum well structure. Herein, we report the synthesis and characterization of two new multifunctional 2D hybrid perovskites, (PED)CuCl4 and (BED)2 CuCl6 , which show reversible thermochromic behavior, dramatic temperature-dependent conductivity change, and strong ferromagnetism. Upon temperature change, the (PED)CuCl4 and (BED)2 CuCl6 crystals exhibit a reversible color change between yellow and red-brown. The associated structural changes were monitored by in situ temperature-dependent powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD). The (BED)2 CuCl6 exhibits superior thermal stability, with a thermochromic working temperature up to 443 K. The conductivity of (BED)2 CuCl6 changes over six orders of magnitude upon temperature change. The 2D perovskites exhibit ferromagnetic properties with Curie temperatures around 13 K.
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