Negative and zero linear compressibility in copper dicyanamide and tricyanomethanide
Muzi Chen1,2, Hanna L B Boström3,4, Dominik Daisenberger5
1Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Royal School of Mines Exhibition Road SW7 2AZ London UK a.cairns@imperial.ac.uk muzichen@kofo.mpg.de Tel: +44(0)20 7594 9528.
Abstract:
Rutile-structured materials can exhibit negative linear compressibility (NLC) following ferroelastic phase transitions, expanding in one direction under uniform compression. We investigate this phenomenon in structural analogues-transition metal dicyanamides (dca) and tricyanomethanides (tcm) with single and double rutile-like structures, respectively. The pressure-induced structural behaviour of Cu(tcm)2 and Cu(dca)2 are studied using high-pressure diffraction. Both systems undergo anisotropic deformation upon compression, with Cu(dca)2 exhibiting NLC of -6.5(10) TPa-1 along the c-axis, while Cu(tcm)2 shows zero linear compressibility (ZLC) along the a-axis. This difference is attributed to the single rutile-like network with flexible dca- linkers in Cu(dca)2, in contrast to the more constrained doubly interpenetrating structure of Cu(tcm)2 with rigid tcm- linkers. We also study the interplay between structural features and electronic effects arising from the Jahn-Teller distortion in both materials, in controlling their compression behaviour.
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