Exploration of glassy state in Prussian blue analogues

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Nature Communications
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DOI:
10.1038/s41467-022-31658-w
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Making glassy Prussian blue analogues

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The glassy state of a versatile family of materials has been prepared for the first time.

A deep-blue pigment used to tint paints and textiles, Prussian blue is representative of a family of coordination polymers that share the same structure. By varying their compositions, they can have a wide range of properties, and they are promising for various applications including batteries.

So far, they have been exclusively studied in their crystalline state, while their glassy state has gone unexplored.

Now, a team led by researchers from Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) in Thailand has used milling to mechanically induce the transition to the glassy state in Prussian blue analogues.

The same approach could be used to explore the glassy states of other molecular framework materials that lack a stable liquid state, the researchers say.

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  1. Nature Communications 13, 4023 (2022). doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31658-w
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University of Aalborg (AAU), Denmark
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Fukuoka University, Japan
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Kyoto University, Japan
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Kyushu University, Japan
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Tohoku University, Japan
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Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan
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AIST-Kyoto University Chemical Energy Materials Open Innovation Laboratory (ChEM-OIL), Japan
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WPI Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Japan
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