Giant Pressure-Driven Lattice Collapse Coupled with Intermetallic Bonding and Spin-State Transition in Manganese Chalcogenides

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Publication Title

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volume

55

Issue

35

First page number:

10350

Last page number:

10353

Abstract

Materials with an abrupt volume collapse of more than 20 % during a pressure-induced phase transition are rarely reported. In such an intriguing phenomenon, the lattice may be coupled with dramatic changes of orbital and/or the spin-state of the transition metal. A combined in situ crystallography and electron spin-state study to probe the mechanism of the pressure-driven lattice collapse in MnS and MnSe is presented. Both materials exhibit a rocksalt-to-MnP phase transition under compression with ca. 22 % unit-cell volume changes, which was found to be coupled with the Mn2+(d5) spin-state transition from S=5/2 to S=1/2 and the formation of Mn−Mn intermetallic bonds as supported by the metallic transport behavior of their high-pressure phases. Our results reveal the mutual relationship between pressure-driven lattice collapse and the orbital/spin-state of Mn2+in manganese chalcogenides and also provide deeper insights toward the exploration of new metastable phases with exceptional functionalities. © 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Keywords

high pressure; intermetallic bonding; lattice collapse; manganese chalcogenides; spin-state transitions

Language

English

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