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Chemical and Microstructural Nanoscale Homogeneity in Superconducting YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7–x) Films Derived from Metal-Propionate Fluorine-free Solutions
[Image: see text] Research involved in developing alternative energy sources has become a necessity to face global warming. In this context, superconductivity is an appealing solution to enhance clean electrical energy provided that lower production costs can be attained. By implementation of chemic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9634695/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36269760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c11414 |
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author | Saltarelli, Lavinia Gupta, Kapil Rasi, Silvia Kethamkuzhi, Aiswarya Queraltó, Albert Garcia, Diana Gutierrez, Joffre Farjas, Jordi Roura-Grabulosa, Pere Ricart, Susagna Obradors, Xavier Puig, Teresa |
author_facet | Saltarelli, Lavinia Gupta, Kapil Rasi, Silvia Kethamkuzhi, Aiswarya Queraltó, Albert Garcia, Diana Gutierrez, Joffre Farjas, Jordi Roura-Grabulosa, Pere Ricart, Susagna Obradors, Xavier Puig, Teresa |
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description | [Image: see text] Research involved in developing alternative energy sources has become a necessity to face global warming. In this context, superconductivity is an appealing solution to enhance clean electrical energy provided that lower production costs can be attained. By implementation of chemical solution deposition techniques and high-throughput growth methods, low-cost nanostructured epitaxial cuprate superconductors are timely candidates. Here, we present a versatile and tunable solution method suitable for the preparation of high-performance epitaxial cuprate superconducting films. Disregarding the renowned trifluoroacetate route, we center our focus on the transient liquid-assisted growth (TLAG) that meets the requirement of being a greener chemical process together with ultrafast growth rates beyond 100 nm/s. We developed a facile, fast, and cost-effective method, starting from the synthesis of metal-propionate powders of Y, Ba, and Cu of high purity and high yields, being the precursors of the fluorine-free solutions, which enable the chemical and microstructural nanoscale homogeneity of YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7–x) (YBCO) precursor films. These solutions present endured stability and enable precise tunability of the composition, concentration, porosity, and film thickness. Homogeneous precursor films up to thicknesses of 2.7 μm through eight layer multidepositions are demonstrated, thus establishing the correct basis for epitaxial growth using the fast kinetics of the TLAG process. YBCO films of 500 nm thickness with a critical current density of 2.6 MA/cm(2) at 77 K were obtained, showing the correlation of precursor film homogeneity to the final YBCO physical properties. |
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spelling | pubmed-96346952022-11-05 Chemical and Microstructural Nanoscale Homogeneity in Superconducting YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7–x) Films Derived from Metal-Propionate Fluorine-free Solutions Saltarelli, Lavinia Gupta, Kapil Rasi, Silvia Kethamkuzhi, Aiswarya Queraltó, Albert Garcia, Diana Gutierrez, Joffre Farjas, Jordi Roura-Grabulosa, Pere Ricart, Susagna Obradors, Xavier Puig, Teresa ACS Appl Mater Interfaces [Image: see text] Research involved in developing alternative energy sources has become a necessity to face global warming. In this context, superconductivity is an appealing solution to enhance clean electrical energy provided that lower production costs can be attained. By implementation of chemical solution deposition techniques and high-throughput growth methods, low-cost nanostructured epitaxial cuprate superconductors are timely candidates. Here, we present a versatile and tunable solution method suitable for the preparation of high-performance epitaxial cuprate superconducting films. Disregarding the renowned trifluoroacetate route, we center our focus on the transient liquid-assisted growth (TLAG) that meets the requirement of being a greener chemical process together with ultrafast growth rates beyond 100 nm/s. We developed a facile, fast, and cost-effective method, starting from the synthesis of metal-propionate powders of Y, Ba, and Cu of high purity and high yields, being the precursors of the fluorine-free solutions, which enable the chemical and microstructural nanoscale homogeneity of YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7–x) (YBCO) precursor films. These solutions present endured stability and enable precise tunability of the composition, concentration, porosity, and film thickness. Homogeneous precursor films up to thicknesses of 2.7 μm through eight layer multidepositions are demonstrated, thus establishing the correct basis for epitaxial growth using the fast kinetics of the TLAG process. YBCO films of 500 nm thickness with a critical current density of 2.6 MA/cm(2) at 77 K were obtained, showing the correlation of precursor film homogeneity to the final YBCO physical properties. American Chemical Society 2022-10-21 2022-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9634695/ /pubmed/36269760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c11414 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Permits the broadest form of re-use including for commercial purposes, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Saltarelli, Lavinia Gupta, Kapil Rasi, Silvia Kethamkuzhi, Aiswarya Queraltó, Albert Garcia, Diana Gutierrez, Joffre Farjas, Jordi Roura-Grabulosa, Pere Ricart, Susagna Obradors, Xavier Puig, Teresa Chemical and Microstructural Nanoscale Homogeneity in Superconducting YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7–x) Films Derived from Metal-Propionate Fluorine-free Solutions |
title | Chemical and Microstructural
Nanoscale Homogeneity
in Superconducting YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7–x) Films Derived from Metal-Propionate Fluorine-free
Solutions |
title_full | Chemical and Microstructural
Nanoscale Homogeneity
in Superconducting YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7–x) Films Derived from Metal-Propionate Fluorine-free
Solutions |
title_fullStr | Chemical and Microstructural
Nanoscale Homogeneity
in Superconducting YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7–x) Films Derived from Metal-Propionate Fluorine-free
Solutions |
title_full_unstemmed | Chemical and Microstructural
Nanoscale Homogeneity
in Superconducting YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7–x) Films Derived from Metal-Propionate Fluorine-free
Solutions |
title_short | Chemical and Microstructural
Nanoscale Homogeneity
in Superconducting YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7–x) Films Derived from Metal-Propionate Fluorine-free
Solutions |
title_sort | chemical and microstructural
nanoscale homogeneity
in superconducting yba(2)cu(3)o(7–x) films derived from metal-propionate fluorine-free
solutions |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9634695/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36269760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c11414 |
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