Issue 12, 2015

A high-temperature supramolecular-based switchable dielectric material with electrical bistability between high and low dielectric states

Abstract

One new hybrid supramolecular-based phase transition compound TAPC containing macrocycle stator with electrical bistability between high and low dielectric states (TAPC = [(TAP-NH3)·(18-crown-6)·0.5(H2O)]·2(ClO4) (1), TAP-NH3 = 4-ammonio-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinium) has been prepared and characterized by variable-temperature crystal structure determination, elemental analysis, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and temperature-dependent dielectric spectroscopy. The DSC measurement showed a pair of sharp peaks at 357 K (heating) and 322 K (cooling), indicating that TAPC undergoes a reversible first-order phase transition. The crystal structures obtained at 293 K and 368 K are both monoclinic in the P21/m space group. The most distinct difference between room-temperature and high-temperature structures is the order–disorder transition of the ClO4 anions and the displacement of the guest water molecules, which are the driving forces of the high-temperature phase transition with electrical bistability (two incentives that synergistically induced the phase transition). This functional moiety could be a cation/anion or guest molecule solely, observed in a lot of compounds, and very few of them belong to the collaborative type (order–disorder motion and displacement) with high-temperature dielectric phase transitions. In addition, the large thermal hysteresis of 37.2 K contributes to a widely tunable transition between high and low dielectric states. Such distinctive dielectric performance suggests that 1 might be a potential high-temperature switchable dielectric material.

Graphical abstract: A high-temperature supramolecular-based switchable dielectric material with electrical bistability between high and low dielectric states

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Oct 2014
Accepted
11 Feb 2015
First published
11 Feb 2015

CrystEngComm, 2015,17, 2479-2485

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A high-temperature supramolecular-based switchable dielectric material with electrical bistability between high and low dielectric states

C. Chen, F. Wang, Y. Zhang, Q. Ye, H. Ye and D. Fu, CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 2479 DOI: 10.1039/C4CE02028F

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