Imaging metal-like monoclinic phase stabilized by surface coordination effect in vanadium dioxide nanobeam

In correlated systems, intermediate states usually appear transiently across phase transitions even at the femtosecond scale. It therefore remains an open question how to determine these intermediate states-a critical issue for understanding the origin of their correlated behaviour. Here we report a surface coordination route to successfully stabilize and directly image an intermediate state in the metal-insulator transition of vanadium dioxide. As a prototype metal-insulator transition material, we capture an unusual metal-like monoclinic phase at room temperature that has long been predicted. Coordinate bonding of L-ascorbic acid molecules with vanadium dioxide nanobeams induces charge-carrier density reorganization and stabilizes metallic monoclinic vanadium dioxide, unravelling orbital-selective Mott correlation for gap opening of the vanadium dioxide metal-insulator transition. Our study contributes to completing phase-evolution pathways in the metal-insulator transition process, and we anticipate that coordination chemistry may be a powerful tool for engineering properties of low-dimensional correlated solids.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Nature communications - 8(2017) vom: 14. Juni, Seite 15561

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wu, Jiajing [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Zhenpeng [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Yuqiao [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yuhua [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yingcheng [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Chu, Wangsheng [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Changzheng [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Yi [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 11.12.2018

Date Revised 11.12.2018

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/ncomms15561

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM272923729