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We have used synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction (SXRPD) to investigate the structural behavior of cesium dihydrogen phosphate upon heating. Temperature-resolved data collected at ambient-pressure demonstrate that a transition from the room-temperature monoclinic phase (P21/m; a=7.90Å, b=6.39Å, c=4.87Å, and β=107.64°) to a high-temperature cubic phase (Pm3m; a=4.96Å) occurs at T=237°C. The high-temperature phase is not stable under ambient-pressure conditions, even in the absence of further heating. On the other hand, SXRPD measurements carried out under high-pressure (∼1GPa) evidence a transition from monoclinic to a stable cubic phase (Pm3m, a=4.88Å) at a temperature within the 255°C-275°C range. A 1000-fold increase in the proton conductivity (indicating the transition to the superprotonic phase) was previously observed under the same non-ambient conditions. Therefore, our results represent strong evidence that the superprotonic behavior in cesium dihydrogen phosphate is associated with a monoclinic-to-cubic polymorphic structural transition and not with chemical modifications.
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Cristian, E.B., Russell, R.C., Zhang, J. et al. Evidence for a Structural Transition to a Superprotonic CsH2PO4 Phase Under High Pressure. MRS Online Proceedings Library 929, 201 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-0929-II02-01
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