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CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
Volume 16, Issue 5, Pages 2945-2951Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b00297
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- NSF [DMR-1360863]
- Division of Scientific User Facilities, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy [DE.-AC05-00OR22725]
- UT-Battelle, LLC
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1360863] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We report the crystal growth of well-faceted single crystals of methylammonium lead iodide, CH3NH3PbI3, and detailed single crystal neutron diffraction structural studies aimed at elucidating the orientation of the methylammonium (CH3NH3+) cation in the tetragonal and Cubic phases of the hybrid inorganic organic perovskite. Room temperature experiments reveal a tetragonal structure where the protonated amine substituent (-NH3+) of the cation is disordered in four positions, each preferentially located near the neighboring iodine of the [PbI6] octahedra, while the methyl substituent (-CH3) is disordered in eight positions located near the body position of the unit cell. High temperature experiments show 4 cubic structure where the cation aligns along the [011] (edge), the [111] (diagonal), and the [100] (face) directions of the unit cell. The resulting site occupancy ratio suggests the CH3NH3+ cation resides primarily along the [011] direction, in agreement with reported DFT calculations. One important feature that was observed for both tetragonal and cubic structures measured at 295 and 350 K, respectively, is the middle point of the C-N bond being located off-center from the high symmetry sites in the crystal structure, induced by the formation of hydrogen bond-like interactions between the -NH3+ substituent of the organic cation and the iodine atoms of [PbI6] octahedra.
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