TY  - JOUR
AB  - Phase transitions between different aggregate states are omnipresent in nature and technology. Conventionally, a crystalline phase melts upon heating as we use ice to cool a drink. Already in 1903, Gustav Tammann speculated about the opposite process, namely melting upon cooling. So far, evidence for such "inverse" transitions in real materials is rare and limited to few systems or extreme conditions. Here, we demonstrate an inverse phase transition for molecules adsorbed on a surface. Molybdenum tetraacetate on copper (111) forms an ordered structure at room temperature, which dissolves upon cooling. This transition is mediated by molecules becoming mobile, i.e., by mobilization upon cooling. This unexpected phenomenon is ascribed to the larger number of internal degrees of freedom in the ordered phase compared to the mobile phase at low temperatures. © 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
DA  - 2021
DO  - 10.1002/anie.202105100
LA  - eng
M2  - 19117
PY  - 2021
SP  - 19117-19122
T2  - Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
TI  - Mobilization upon Cooling
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29559058
Y2  - 2024-11-22T05:46:32
ER  -