Electrical conductivities of Cs-unsaturated organic molecule-ternary GIC decrease gradually or rapidly in air, while their thermoelectric powers remain unchanged. For investigating their conductive carriers, electrical conductivity (σ), Hall coefficient (R
H) and magnetoresistance (Δρ/ρ) of CsC
24 (C
2H
4)
x, CsC
24 (C
6H
6)
x and CsC
24 (C
2H
3CN)
x were measured, and their carrier concentrations (
n) and mobilities (μ) were estimated. The values of R
H were negative for all the GICs investigated, thus their dominant carriers were considered to be electrons. On the other hand, thevalues of Δρ/ρ of CsC
24 (C
2H
4)
1.4 were too small to be detected, indicating that its electrical conduction is only throughelectrons, while other GICs have electrons and much less number of holes. These results indicate that all of the ternary GICs investigated maintain a certain fraction of Cs atoms between graphite layers, even after a long time of exposureto air, although some degradation of stage structure are found by XRD as the case of CsC
24 (C
6H
6)
2.1. This consideration corresponds well with the fact that their thermoelectric powers kept unchanged. By observing the change of thegalvanomagnetic properties of the ternary GICs with time, we found that the releasing of part of Cs atoms from theinterlayer nanospace occurred exclusively in the first 30 days.
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