Molecules (Dec 2022)

Variable Temperature Behaviour of the Hybrid Double Perovskite MA<sub>2</sub>KBiCl<sub>6</sub>

  • Fengxia Wei,
  • Yue Wu,
  • Shijing Sun,
  • Zeyu Deng,
  • Li Tian Chew,
  • Baisong Cheng,
  • Cheng Cheh Tan,
  • Timothy J. White,
  • Anthony K. Cheetham

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28010174
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 1
p. 174

Abstract

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Perovskite-related materials show very promising properties in many fields. Pb-free perovskites are particularly interesting, because of the toxicity of Pb. In this study, hybrid double perovskite MA2KBiCl6 (MA = methylammonium cation) was found to have interesting variable temperature behaviours. Both variable temperature single crystal X-ray diffraction, synchrotron powder diffraction, and Raman spectroscopy were conducted to reveal a rhombohedral to cubic phase transition at around 330 K and an order to disorder transition for inorganic cage below 210 K.

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