Discovery of Elusive K4O6, a Compound Stabilized by Configurational Entropy of 
Polarons

Freysoldt, Christoph; Merz, Patrick; Schmidt, Marcus; Mohitkar, Shrikant; Felser, Claudia; Neugebauer, Jörg; Jansen, Martin

doi:10.1002/anie.201809409

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Discovery of Elusive K₄O₆, a Compound Stabilized by Configurational Entropy of Polarons

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Freysoldt, Christoph
Defect Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Computational Materials Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Max Planck Society;

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Merz, Patrick
Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Schmidt, Marcus
Marcus Schmidt, Chemical Metal Science, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Mohitkar, Shrikant
Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Felser, Claudia
Claudia Felser, Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Neugebauer, Jörg
Computational Materials Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Max Planck Society;

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Jansen, Martin
Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Freysoldt, C., Merz, P., Schmidt, M., Mohitkar, S., Felser, C., Neugebauer, J., et al. (2019). Discovery of Elusive K₄O₆, a Compound Stabilized by Configurational Entropy of Polarons. Angewandte Chemie, 58(1), 149-153. doi:10.1002/anie.201809409.

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Abstract Synthesis of elusive K4O6 has disclosed implications of crucial relevance for new solid materials discovery. K4O6 forms in equilibrium from K2O2 and KO2, in an all-solid state, endothermic reaction at elevated temperature, undergoing back reaction upon cooling to ambient conditions. This tells that the compound is stabilized by entropy alone. Analyzing possible entropic contributions reveals that the configurational entropy of ?localized? electrons, i.e., of polaronic quasi-particles, provides the essential contribution to the stabilization. We corroborate this assumption by measuring the relevant heats of transformation and tracking the origin of entropy of formation computationally. These findings challenge current experimental and computational approaches towards exploring chemical systems for new materials by searching the potential energy landscape: one would fail in detecting candidates that are crucially stabilized by the configurational entropy of localized polarons.