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Exploring the temperature-dependent phase transitions of the solid electrolytes copper and silver tetraiodomercurates (Cu2, Ag2) HgI4: a study of thermal and electrical conductivities

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Copper and silver tetraiodomercurates (Cu2HgI4, Ag2HgI4) are thermochromic materials whose color changes result from a crystalline phase transition, affecting their electrical and thermal conductivities. Both materials, defined as superionic solids, are solid electrolytes where the metallic cations are the charge carriers in the higher temperature phase, which occurs at 50 °C for Ag2HgI4 and at 69 °C for Cu2HgI4. In this work, we present the thermal characterization of these materials by measuring the thermal diffusivity as a function of temperature, intending to elucidate the influence of randomly moving cations on thermal transport and their interactions with the phonons produced in the anion sublattice. The electrical conductivity characterization enabled us to contrast their different behavior as the phase transition occurs due to temperature changes. Thermal and electrical transport performance characterization of these materials opens the possibility of using them in different applications, such as solid-state batteries, optical devices for recording media, active materials for thermally controlled systems, temperature sensing devices, and fillers for manufacturing smart composites, among many others.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially funded by project CNR-CINVESTAV 2020: “Exploring the relation between near field and far field thermal emission tailored by coupling phase changing and plasmonic materials” and by CONAHCYT project A1-S-10011. F. C-A thanks to CONAHCYT by fellowship “Investigadores por México”. The authors are grateful to José Bante Guerra for their technical support.

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    José Abraham Chan-Espinoza, Adriana Paola Franco-Bacca & Juan José Alvarado-Gil

  2. Facultad de Ingeniería, Investigador Posdoctoral por México-CONAHCYT, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Av. Industrias no Contaminantes, Cordemex, C.P. 97302, Mérida, Yucatán, México

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    Rubén Arturo Medina-Esquivel

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Conceptualization, FC-A, JAC-E, APF-B, and JJA-G; formal analysis, FC-A, JAC-E; funding acquisition JJA-G; investigation, FC-A, JAC-E, and APF-B; methodology, FC-A and JAC-E; resources, US-K, MC-T and JJA-G; supervision, RAM-E, and JJA-G; visualization, APF-B and FC-A; writing—original draft, FC-A and JAC-E; writing—review and editing, FC-A, RAM-E and JJA-G. All authors have read and agreed to publish this version of the manuscript.

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Chan-Espinoza, J.A., Franco-Bacca, A.P., Cervantes-Alvarez, F. et al. Exploring the temperature-dependent phase transitions of the solid electrolytes copper and silver tetraiodomercurates (Cu2, Ag2) HgI4: a study of thermal and electrical conductivities. Appl. Phys. A 130, 169 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-024-07342-9

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