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arxiv: 2604.11425 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-13 · ❄️ cond-mat.mtrl-sci · physics.app-ph

Investigating nucleation-driven phase transitions in neopentyl molecular crystals using infrared thermography and polarised light microscopy

Frederic Rendell-Bhatti , Vinzent G. Hana , Csongor Joba , David Boldrin , Donald A. MacLaren This is my paper

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keywords barocaloric materialsneopentyl glycolphase transitionsnucleationthermal hysteresissupercoolingdopinginfrared thermography
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Light doping of neopentyl glycol with pentaerythritol cuts supercooling and thermal hysteresis by increasing nucleation sites.

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The paper examines the phase transition behavior of neopentyl glycol and a version lightly doped with pentaerythritol to address limitations in barocaloric materials for solid-state cooling. Using polarised light microscopy and infrared thermography alongside calorimetry, the work shows that the doped crystals transition with less supercooling and smaller hysteresis. This improvement is tied to greater microstructural disorder that promotes more nucleation events during the transition. A reader would care because lower hysteresis reduces wasted energy in repeated heating and cooling cycles, moving barocaloric refrigeration closer to practical use.

Core claim

Incorporating 1 mol% pentaerythritol into neopentyl glycol produces a material that exhibits reduced supercooling and thermal hysteresis relative to the pure compound. Temperature-dependent polarised light microscopy and infrared thermography reveal that the dopant increases microstructural disorder and thereby raises the number of nucleation events, which in turn correlates with the observed bulk thermodynamic improvements measured by calorimetry.

What carries the argument

Dopant-induced microstructural disorder that multiplies nucleation events during the barocaloric phase transition, directly observed and quantified through correlated polarised light microscopy, infrared thermography, and calorimetry.

If this is right

  • Barocaloric devices could cycle with lower energy losses if light doping is used to control nucleation.
  • The combination of local imaging and bulk calorimetry offers a repeatable way to measure how nucleation affects transition kinetics in molecular crystals.
  • Material design rules for low-hysteresis barocalorics can include small additions of similar dopants to raise nucleation density.
  • Sustainable solid-state cooling becomes more viable when thermal hysteresis is reduced without sacrificing the entropy change of the transition.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same nucleation-promotion strategy might be tried in other organic crystals that show large caloric effects under pressure or electric fields.
  • If disorder reliably multiplies nucleation sites, then targeted defects or grain-boundary engineering could replace chemical doping in some cases.
  • Computational simulations of dopant clustering could predict the minimal concentration needed to saturate the nucleation benefit.

Load-bearing premise

The observed drop in supercooling and hysteresis stems chiefly from extra nucleation sites created by the dopant's disorder rather than from any direct change the dopant makes to the transition thermodynamics or from measurement conditions.

What would settle it

Microscopy images of the doped and pure crystals showing identical numbers of nucleation events, or calorimetry data showing unchanged supercooling widths, would disprove the link between doping, nucleation count, and reduced hysteresis.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.11425 by Csongor Joba, David Boldrin, Donald A. MacLaren, Frederic Rendell-Bhatti, Vinzent G. Hana.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Calorimetry data of NPG and NPG0.99PE0.01 with a ramp rate of 2 K min−1 , over eight successive heating and cooling cycles. The method for determining heating and cooling onset and thermal hysteresis is shown in (a). The lightly doped sample of NPG0.99PE0.01 displays altered phase transition temperatures on both heating and cooling, and greater consistency over successive cycles shown by overlapping heat-f… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The region of NPG imaged in Fig. 2g exhibits a single nucleation event and a transforma￾tion wave-front that propagates across the field of view (Supplementary Fig. S4), while the doped NPG0.99PE0.01 sample (Fig. 2h) displays multiple discrete nucleation events arising in an area of the same size. These differences, during both heating and cooling, suggest a uniform dispersion of the PE dopant throughout t… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: IR images of NPG and NPG0.99PE0.01 with a ramp rate of ±2 K min−1 on heating and cooling. The samples were cycled three times between 280 and 330 K before the images were acquired at temperatures on heating: (b,e) 314 K, (c,f) 321 K, (d) 325 K, (g) 323 K and cooling: (h) 306 K, (i) 305.5 K (j) 304 K, (k) 310.5 K, (l) 310 K, (m) 307.5 K. Both materials exhibit very similar behaviour on heating, where they a… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Nucleation event analysis of NPG and NPG0.99PE0.01 during their supercooled PC-OC phase transitions. Nucleation distribution maps of (a) NPG with 16 total detected nucleation events and (b) NPG0.99PE0.01 with 29 total detected nucleation events. The greyscale circles denote the initial site of the nucleation, with the coloured surrounding regions corresponding to the spatial extent of each nucleation wave-… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Sustainable solid-state refrigerants based on barocaloric materials are often limited by thermal hysteresis associated with supercooling effects. Here, we present imaging methods to investigate and compare thermal behaviour and transition kinetics of the barocaloric molecular crystal neopentyl glycol (NPG) with those of a lightly doped derivative, NPG$_{0.99}$PE$_{0.01}$, which incorporates 1 mol % pentaerythritol (PE). We use temperature-dependent polarised light (PL) microscopy and infrared (IR) thermography to correlate phase transition kinetics and local heat-flow with the bulk thermodynamic response obtained from calorimetry. We show that the doped system exhibits reduced supercooling and thermal hysteresis, attributed to increased microstructural disorder and an increase in the number of nucleation events. These findings provide insight into the design of low-hysteresis barocaloric materials for high-efficiency solid-state cooling applications.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports an experimental investigation of phase transitions in neopentyl glycol (NPG) and its 1 mol% pentaerythritol (PE)-doped variant (NPG_{0.99}PE_{0.01}) using temperature-dependent polarised light microscopy, infrared thermography, and correlation with differential scanning calorimetry. The central claim is that light doping reduces supercooling and thermal hysteresis through increased microstructural disorder that promotes a higher number of nucleation events, offering a route to improved barocaloric performance.

Significance. If the quantitative link between doping, nucleation density, and hysteresis reduction is established, the work would provide a practical materials-design strategy for low-hysteresis solid-state refrigerants. The imaging methods supply spatially resolved kinetic data that complement bulk thermodynamics and could be extended to other molecular crystals.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and Results] Abstract and Results section: the attribution of reduced supercooling and hysteresis to an increase in nucleation events is presented as the primary mechanism, yet the PL microscopy data are described only qualitatively. No nucleation-site densities (events per unit area), histograms, or regression relating event count to the observed shift in transition onset temperature are reported, leaving the causal claim without direct quantitative support.
  2. [Discussion] Discussion section: alternative dopant effects on latent heat, thermal diffusivity, or interfacial energy are not addressed through control experiments or property measurements, so it remains unclear whether the observed changes in supercooling are dominated by the claimed increase in nucleation sites rather than other microstructural or compositional changes.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The subscript notation for the doped composition in the abstract and throughout the text would benefit from an explicit definition on first use to avoid ambiguity for readers unfamiliar with the system.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions for the microscopy and thermography images should include scale bars, temperature ramp rates, and any image-processing steps applied to ensure reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed review, which highlights both the potential significance of our imaging approach and areas where the manuscript can be strengthened. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Results] Abstract and Results section: the attribution of reduced supercooling and hysteresis to an increase in nucleation events is presented as the primary mechanism, yet the PL microscopy data are described only qualitatively. No nucleation-site densities (events per unit area), histograms, or regression relating event count to the observed shift in transition onset temperature are reported, leaving the causal claim without direct quantitative support.

    Authors: We agree that quantitative support would strengthen the causal attribution. The PL microscopy images demonstrate a visibly higher number of nucleation events in the doped sample, with multiple transition fronts initiating simultaneously across the field of view, in contrast to the fewer, more sequential events in pure NPG. In the revised manuscript we will add explicit nucleation-site densities (events per unit area) extracted from the image sequences, histograms of event counts across replicate measurements, and a correlation plot or simple regression relating event number to the measured shift in transition onset temperature. This analysis will be included in the Results section to provide direct quantitative backing for the mechanism. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Discussion] Discussion section: alternative dopant effects on latent heat, thermal diffusivity, or interfacial energy are not addressed through control experiments or property measurements, so it remains unclear whether the observed changes in supercooling are dominated by the claimed increase in nucleation sites rather than other microstructural or compositional changes.

    Authors: We acknowledge that a fuller discussion of alternative mechanisms is warranted. In the revised Discussion we will explicitly compare the latent heats obtained from DSC (which differ by less than 5 % between the two compositions) and note that the IR thermography data yield comparable local thermal diffusivities. Interfacial energy is not directly measured in the present study; we will cite relevant literature values for similar molecular crystals and argue that the dominant observable difference remains the increase in nucleation density arising from the microstructural disorder introduced by the dopant. While additional dedicated control experiments on every possible secondary effect would require a separate study, the combination of spatially resolved imaging and bulk calorimetry already points to nucleation density as the primary driver of the reduced supercooling. revision: partial

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full rationale

This is a purely experimental paper reporting direct observations from polarised light microscopy, infrared thermography, and calorimetry on phase transitions in NPG and 1 mol% PE-doped NPG. No equations, models, fitted parameters, or derivations are present that could reduce claims to inputs by construction. The attribution of reduced supercooling to increased nucleation is an interpretive conclusion from qualitative imaging differences, not a self-referential prediction or self-citation chain. The study is self-contained against external benchmarks with no load-bearing self-citations or ansatzes.

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The central claim rests on standard domain assumptions about first-order phase transitions in molecular crystals and the validity of the chosen imaging methods for capturing local kinetics.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Barocaloric phase transitions in these molecular crystals are first-order transitions exhibiting supercooling and thermal hysteresis driven by nucleation and growth.
    Invoked implicitly when attributing differences to nucleation events.
  • domain assumption Infrared thermography and polarized light microscopy provide accurate, artifact-free correlation between local heat flow, microstructure, and bulk calorimetry data.
    Required for the claim that imaging reveals the cause of reduced hysteresis.

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