Powder XRD and TEM study on crystal structure and interstratification of Zn-chlorite (baileychlore)

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungyeol Lee ◽  
Huifang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Analytical Electron Microscopy ◽  
Type I ◽  
Octahedral Sheet ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
Reitveld Refinement ◽  
Calcite Veins ◽  
Stacking Disorder

Baileychlore is Zn-end member trioctahedral chlorite, named by Audrey C. Rule and Frank Radke in 1988 for the honor of Professor Sturges W. Bailey of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA. Baileychlore occurs as dark green chlorite on calcite veins from garnet-vesuvianite skarn clasts at Red Dome ore deposit, Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia. The baileychlore has been studied by using powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray energy-dispersive analytical electron microscopy analyses to determine crystal structure and interstratified layers. Baileychlore with stacking disorder displays streaking reflections of 0k0 (≠6n) hhl (h ≠ 3n). Unit-cell parameters for baileychlore (type I polytype) with a space group of C$ \bar 1$ are: a = 5.351(3), b = 9.266(5), c = 14.418(8) Å, α = 89.741(3)°, β = 96.741(4)°, and γ = 90.122(2)°. The strong lines of the measured XRD pattern [d(Å)(I)(hkl)] are: 14.331(7.151)(90.5)(002); 4.574(23.2)(1$ \bar 1$0, 11$ \bar 1$); 3.572(38.5)(004); 2.653(31.4)($ \bar 1$31, 200, 13$ \bar 1$); 2.406(49.4)(202, $ \bar 1$33, 13$ \bar 3$); 1.543(27.6)($ \bar 3$31, 060, 33$ \bar 1$), respectively. Reitveld refinement provides a composition (Zn2.49Al0.09Fe2+ 0.09□0.33)0.61− for the octahedral sheet and (Si3.53Al0.47)0.47− for the tetrahedral sheets within the 2:1 layer with (Al1.08Fe1.08Mg0.84)1.08+ for the interlayer sheet. The refinement results indicate that baileychlore is an intergrowth of type I and II polytypes. High-resolution TEM images show stacking disorder of baileychlore with small amount of isolated smectite layers.

Analytical Electron Microscopy (AEM) of Meningeal Cells Exposed to Particulate Cobalt During Studies of Experimental Epilepsy

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 186-187
Author(s):  
R.G. Frederickson ◽  
R.G. Ulrich ◽  
J.L. Culberson
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Analytical Electron Microscopy ◽  
Experimental Epilepsy ◽  
Metallic Cobalt ◽  
Experimental Animals ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Brain Surface ◽  
Meningeal Cells ◽  
Analytical Electron ◽  
The Brain

Metallic cobalt acts as an epileptogenic agent when placed on the brain surface of some experimental animals. The mechanism by which this substance produces abnormal neuronal discharge is unknown. One potentially useful approach to this problem is to study the cellular and extracellular distribution of elemental cobalt in the meninges and adjacent cerebral cortex. Since it is possible to demonstrate the morphological localization and distribution of heavy metals, such as cobalt, by correlative x-ray analysis and electron microscopy (i.e., by AEM), we are using AEM to locate and identify elemental cobalt in phagocytic meningeal cells of young 80-day postnatal opossums following a subdural injection of cobalt particles.

The effect of small additions of Cu on precipitation in Al-Mg-Si alloys

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 442-443
Author(s):  
M. Tamizifar ◽  
G. Cliff ◽  
R.W. Devenish ◽  
G.W. Lorimer
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Analytical Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope ◽  
Argon Atmosphere ◽  
Age Hardening ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Heat Treated ◽  
Analytical Electron ◽  
Scanning Transmission

Small additions of copper, <1 wt%, have a pronounced effect on the ageing response of Al-Mg-Si alloys. The object of the present investigation was to study the effect of additions of copper up to 0.5 wt% on the ageing response of a series of Al-Mg-Si alloys and to use high resolution analytical electron microscopy to determine the composition of the age hardening precipitates.The composition of the alloys investigated is given in Table 1. The alloys were heat treated in an argon atmosphere for 30m, water quenched and immediately aged either at 180°C for 15 h or given a duplex treatment of 180°C for 15 h followed by 350°C for 2 h2. The double-ageing treatment was similar to that carried out by Dumolt et al. Analyses of the precipitation were carried out with a HB 501 Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope. X-ray peak integrals were converted into weight fractions using the ratio technique of Cliff and Lorimer.

X-ray powder diffraction data of LaNi0.5Ti0.45Co0.05O3, LaNi0.45Co0.05Ti0.5O3, and LaNi0.5Ti0.5O3 perovskites

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mariana M. V. M. Souza ◽  
Alex Maza ◽  
Pablo V. Tuza
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Rietveld Method ◽  
Pechini Method ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
Modified Pechini Method ◽  
Scanning Electron

In the present work, LaNi0.5Ti0.45Co0.05O3, LaNi0.45Co0.05Ti0.5O3, and LaNi0.5Ti0.5O3 perovskites were synthesized by the modified Pechini method. These materials were characterized using X-ray fluorescence, scanning electron microscopy, and powder X-ray diffraction coupled to the Rietveld method. The crystal structure of these materials is orthorhombic, with space group Pbnm (No 62). The unit-cell parameters are a = 5.535(5) Å, b = 5.527(3) Å, c = 7.819(7) Å, V = 239.2(3) Å3, for the LaNi0.5Ti0.45Co0.05O3, a = 5.538(6) Å, b = 5.528(4) Å, c = 7.825(10) Å, V = 239.5(4) Å3, for the LaNi0.45Co0.05Ti0.5O3, and a = 5.540(2) Å, b = 5.5334(15) Å, c = 7.834(3) Å, V = 240.2(1) Å3, for the LaNi0.5Ti0.5O3.

scholarly journals Crystal Structure Refinements of Four Monazite Samples from Different Localities

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1028 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mashrur Zaman ◽  
Sytle M. Antao
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Electron Probe ◽  
Unit Cell Volume ◽  
Unit Cell ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
Large Unit Cell ◽  
A Site

This study investigates the crystal chemistry of monazite (APO4, where A = Lanthanides = Ln, as well as Y, Th, U, Ca, and Pb) based on four samples from different localities using single-crystal X-ray diffraction and electron-probe microanalysis. The crystal structure of all four samples are well refined, as indicated by their refinement statistics. Relatively large unit-cell parameters (a = 6.7640(5), b = 6.9850(4), c = 6.4500(3) Å, β = 103.584(2)°, and V = 296.22(3) Å3) are obtained for a detrital monazite-Ce from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Sm-rich monazite from Gunnison County, Colorado, USA, has smaller unit-cell parameters (a = 6.7010(4), b = 6.9080(4), c = 6.4300(4) Å, β = 103.817(3)°, and V = 289.04(3) Å3). The a, b, and c unit-cell parameters vary linearly with the unit-cell volume, V. The change in the a parameter is large (0.2 Å) and is related to the type of cations occupying the A site. The average <A-O> distances vary linearly with V, whereas the average <P-O> distances are nearly constant because the PO4 group is a rigid tetrahedron.

Refinement of the crystal structure of sieleckiite and revision of its symmetry

2017 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 917-922
Author(s):  
Peter Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Synchrotron Radiation ◽  
Single Crystal ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Aluminium Phosphate ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
Phosphate Mineral

AbstractThe crystal structure of the copper aluminium phosphate mineral sieleckiite, Cu3Al4(PO4)2 (OH)12·2H2O, from the Mt Oxide copper mine, Queensland, Australia was solved from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data utilizing synchrotron radiation. Sieleckiite has monoclinic rather than triclinic symmetry as previously reported and is space group C2/m with unit-cell parameters a = 11.711(2), b = 6.9233(14), c = 9.828(2) Å, β = 92.88(3)°, V = 795.8(3) Å3and Z = 2. The crystal structure, which has been refined to R1 = 0.0456 on the basis of 1186 unique reflections with Fo > 4σF, is a framework of corner-, edge- and face- sharing Cu and Al octahedra and PO4 tetrahedra.

Synthesis and crystal structure of (Ag,Pd)22Se6

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Laufek ◽  
A. Vymazalová ◽  
D.A. Chareev ◽  
A.V. Kristavchuk ◽  
J. Drahokoupil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Glass Tube ◽  
Structure Type ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
Synthesis And Crystal Structure ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
Silica Glass Tube

The (Ag,Pd)22Se6 phase was synthesized from individual elements by silica glass tube technique and structurally characterized from powder X-ray diffraction data. The (Ag,Pd)22Se6 phase crystallizes in Fm$\overline3$m symmetry, unit-cell parameters: a = 12.3169(2) Å, V = 1862.55(5) Å3, Z = 4, and Dc = 10.01 g/cm3. The crystal structure of the (Ag,Pd)22Se6 phase represents a stuffed 3a.3a.3a superstructure of the Pd structure (fcc), where only 4 from 108 available octahedral holes are occupied. Its crystal structure is related to the Cr23C6 structure type.

Crystal structure of potassium tetraperoxomolybdate (VI) K2[Mo(O2)4]

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Grzywa ◽  
M. Różycka ◽  
W. Łasocha
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Diffraction Pattern ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Rietveld Method ◽  
Structure Refinement ◽  
Crystal Structure Refinement ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters

Potassium tetraperoxomolybdate (VI) K2[Mo(O2)4] was prepared, and its X-ray powder diffraction pattern was recorded at low temperature (258 K). The unit cell parameters were refined to a=10.7891(2) Å, α=64.925(3)°, space group R−3c (167), Z=6. The compound is isostructural with potassium tetraperoxotungstate (VI) K2[W(O2)4] (Stomberg, 1988). The sample of K2[Mo(O2)4] was characterized by analytical investigations, and the results of crystal structure refinement by Rietveld method are presented; final RP and RWP are 9.79% and 12.37%, respectively.

XRPD and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Alloys of the CuAlS2 – CuFeS2 System Prepared by Thermobaric Treatment

MRS Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (56) ◽  
pp. 3323-3328
Author(s):  
Barys Korzun ◽  
Anatoly Pushkarev
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
High Pressure ◽  
Unit Cell Volume ◽  
Unit Cell ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
Lattice Constants ◽  
Scanning Electron

ABSTRACTAlloys of the CuAlS2 – CuFeS2 system were prepared by thermobaric treatment at high pressure of 5.5 GPa and temperatures ranging from 573 to 1573 K and phase formation in the system was investigated using X-ray powder diffraction, optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy equipped with energy dispersive spectroscopy. The unit-cell parameters (the lattice constants and the unit-cell volume) were computed as a function of the composition. Absence of complete solubility in the (CuAlS2)1-x-(CuFeS2)x system was established. Formation of solid solutions with the tetragonal structure of chalcopyrite was detected for compositions with the molar part of CuFeS2 x not exceeding 0.10.

scholarly journals Expression, purification, crystallization and X-ray diffraction studies of the molecular chaperone prefoldin fromHomo sapiens

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (9) ◽  
pp. 1189-1193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiki Aikawa ◽  
Hiroshi Kida ◽  
Yuichi Nishitani ◽  
Kunio Miki
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Protein Folding ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Molecular Chaperone ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Unit Cell Parameters ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cell Parameters ◽  
Native Proteins ◽  
Group Ii Chaperonin

Proper protein folding is an essential process for all organisms. Prefoldin (PFD) is a molecular chaperone that assists protein folding by delivering non-native proteins to group II chaperonin. A heterohexamer of eukaryotic PFD has been shown to specifically recognize and deliver non-native actin and tubulin to chaperonin-containing TCP-1 (CCT), but the mechanism of specific recognition is still unclear. To determine its crystal structure, recombinant human PFD was reconstituted, purified and crystallized. X-ray diffraction data were collected to 4.7 Å resolution. The crystals belonged to space groupP21212, with unit-cell parametersa= 123.2,b= 152.4,c= 105.9 Å.

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