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Improving the electrochromic performance of prussian blue (PB) thin films by using an innovative electrothermophoresis method

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An innovative method called electrothermophoresis (ETP), which involves the use of a temperature gradient and a pulsed potential, was investigated for the Prussian blue (PB) thin films. The SEM images showed that the use of the temperature gradient caused the grains to be smaller. By changing of the deposition frequency from Hz to kHz in the pulsed potential mode, the transmittance change of colored and bleached states (ΔT), contrast ratio (CR), and optical density (ΔOD) decrease. Using the innovative method (reverse temperature gradient) causes to increase the contrast ratio and optical density. By using pulsed electric field, the coloration efficiency (CE), reduces nevertheless increases again with the addition of the temperature gradient. Also, the insertion and extraction charge ratio (Qin/Qex) is almost close to the unity in the case of applying an inverse temperature gradient, which indicates a good reversibility of the sample to the oxidation and reduction processes.

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Preparation steps of Prussian blue thin films based on electrothermophoresis technique

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Sekhavat, M.S., Ghodsi, F.E. Improving the electrochromic performance of prussian blue (PB) thin films by using an innovative electrothermophoresis method. Journal of Materials Research 38, 2852–2862 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-023-01005-w

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