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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 140, Issue 46, Pages 15601-15605Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09905
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- NSF MRSEC program through the Center for Precision Assembly of Superstratic and Superatomic Solids [DMR-1420634]
- U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA9550-18-1-0020]
- Army Research Office [71641-MS]
- U.S. Department of Defense through the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) Program
- Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJUI)
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Structural phase transitions run in families of crystalline solids. Perovskites, for example, feature a remarkable number of structural transformations that produce a wealth of exotic behaviors, including ferroelectricity, magnetoresistance, metal-insulator transitions and superconductivity. In superatomic crystals and other such materials assembled from programmable building blocks, phase transitions offer pathways to new properties that are both tunable and switchable. Here we describe [Co6Te8(PEt3)(6)] [C-70](2), a novel superatomic crystal with two separate phase transitions that drastically transform the collective material properties. A coupled structural electronic phase transition triggers the emergence of a new electronic band in the fullerene sublattice of the crystal, increasing its electrical conductivity by 2 orders of magnitude, while narrowing its optical gap and increasing its spin density. Independently, an order-disorder transition transforms [Co6Te8(PEt3)(6)] [C-70](2) from a phonon crystal to a phonon glass. These results introduce a family of materials in which functional phase transformations may be manipulated by varying the constituent building blocks.
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