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Toshihiro Yasunaga

Hiroshima University

Publishes on Iron-based superconductors research, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials, Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides. 1 papers and 67 citations.

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Structure and superconductivity of the intercalation compounds of TiNCl with pyridine and alkali metals as intercalants
Shōji Yamanaka, Toshihiro Yasunaga, Kosuke Yamaguchi et al.|Journal of Materials Chemistry|2009
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Highly crystalline TiNCl with the FeOCl structure was prepared by chemical vapor transport, and intercalated with pyridine (Py) and alkali metals (A = Li, Na, K, and Rb). The structure of each intercalation compound was determined by the Rietveld refinement. Pyridine molecules were taken up to a composition Py0.25TiNCl, and arranged with the molecular plane perpendicular to the TiNCl layers. The pyridine intercalated compound showed superconductivity at a transition temperature (Tc) of 8.6 K. The alkali metal intercalated compounds AxTiNCl also became superconductors with much higher Tcs of ∼16.3 K. Upon intercalation the TiNCl crystalline layers are mutually shifted in such a way that the primitive cell was changed into different kinds of polytypes with centered cells, depending on the dimensions of the intercalants between the layers. The ab initio electrical band calculation suggested that the pyridine and alkali metal intercalated compounds have different density of states (DOS) profiles, and should have different characters in superconductivity.