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CRYSTAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 169-180Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/crat.201300061
Keywords
triglycine sulphate; deuterated; ferroelectric; phase transition
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- Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE)
- Australian Research Council [DP120100490]
- AINSE
- ANSTO [P2033]
- ISIS for beam time grants [RB1110159, RB1120382]
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Using neutron single crystal and powder diffraction, the first thorough investigation of the structure of fully deuterated triglycine sulphate, (ND2CD2COOD)3.D2SO4 is presented, including its evolution with T, through its structural phase transition. This includes new precise structural parameters determined at several key temperatures above and below TC using single crystal diffraction, and for the first time a parametric study has been undertaken over a wide temperature range from 4 to 500 K in 2 K steps. It was found that fully deuterated TGS shows a structure consistent with hydrogenous TGS and partially deuterated TGS. The evolution of several key hydrogen bond lengths suggests that weakening of the H-bond network with T is crucial in decoupling the polarising glycine molecules from the other glycines and allowing the long-range ferroelectric order to break down. A new parameterisation of the phase transition is demonstrated. Contrary to results of physical properties measurements, there is no evidence of a second low temperature phase transition in TGS no low temperature anomalies were observed in the crystal structure.
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