文摘
As the most widely studied thermochromic material, monoclinic vanadium dioxide (VO2 (M)) shows promising applications in the energy-saving field. Solid-state transformation, especially fast annealing, plays an important role in the production of VO2 nanomaterials. On the other hand, the fast process makes it impossible to real-time monitor the phase transition in VO2. In this paper, a differential scanning calorimetry technique is proposed to in situ trigger and dynamically track the phase transition of VO2 nanoparticles, which gives a distinguished method to identify the underlying size-dependent and defect-mediated structure phase transition.