Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Reversible switching between pressure-induced amorphization and thermal-driven recrystallization in VO2(B) nanosheets

  • Yonggang Wang,
  • Jinlong Zhu,
  • Wenge Yang,
  • Ting Wen,
  • Michael Pravica,
  • Zhenxian Liu,
  • Mingqiang Hou,
  • Yingwei Fei,
  • Lei Kang,
  • Zheshuai Lin,
  • Changqing Jin,
  • Yusheng Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12214
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Pressure can either make materials more disordered, like amorphization, or more thermodynamic stable, yet the switching between the two metastable phases has not been described. Wang et al. study it in vanadium oxide nanosheets and highlight the role played by spin and charge during the transition.