Rigidity-Driven Structural Isomers in the NaCl-Ga₂S₃ System: Implications for Energy Storage.

ABSTRACT: Alternative energy sources require the search for innovative materials with promising functionalities. Systems with unusual chemical properties represent an insufficiently explored domain, concealing unexpected features. Using diffraction and Raman spectroscopy over a wide temperature range, supported by first-principles simulations, a rare phenomenon is unveiled: phase-dependent chemical interactions between binary components in the NaCl-Ga₂S₃ system. In this unique occurrence, previously intact binary crystalline species transform upon melting into mixed liquid structural isomers, forming bonds with new partners. The chemical combinatorics appears to be fully reversible for stable crystals and liquids. Despite this, rapidly frozen glasses out of thermodynamic equili

SUBMITTER: Bokova M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11935002 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature