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Simple thermal decomposition synthesis of monoclinic VO2

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Pure monoclinic P21/c VO2 thermochromic ceramics are fabricated based on an accessible and simple method using thermal decomposition synthesis in an organic medium. Well-developed submicron crystals with different morphologies are obtained when calcination temperature is varied from 500 to 700 °C. XRD shows that calcination temperature is necessary to form the monoclinic thermochromic phase and to attain high crystallinity. A pure monoclinic VO2 phase is obtained with our methodology and contrasting with other methods in which mixed vanadium oxide phases appear. Thermodiffraction analysis reveals the structural reversibility of the monoclinic-rutile-monoclinic structure during the phase transition. Additionally, DSC analysis shows the hysteretic thermochromic transition between 60 and 70 °C. Measurements of the optical properties through diffuse reflectance in the visible, and near-infrared ranges and performed as a function of the temperature, exhibit a metal–insulator phase transition in agreement with DSC analysis and thermodiffraction. Our results show that thermal decomposition can be a successful methodology for synthesizing monoclinic VO2 with high quality, purity, and reproducibility.

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the CONACYT project A1-S-10011 and CONACYT (INFR-2011-1-163163). A.P.F-B, F. C-A and J.J. A-G wish to acknowledge the support of SRE-AMEXCID-2016-1-278320 and Cinvestav Scientific Research and Technological Development Fund No. 98. Authors are grateful to José Bante Guerra for their technical support.

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    F. Arteaga-Cardona, N. R. Silva-González & U. Salazar-Kuri

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    A. P. Franco-Bacca, F. Cervantes-Alvarez & J. J. Alvarado-Gil

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Arteaga-Cardona, F., Franco-Bacca, A.P., Cervantes-Alvarez, F. et al. Simple thermal decomposition synthesis of monoclinic VO2. Appl. Phys. A 127, 159 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-021-04309-y

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