Structural investigation of the cubic perovskite-type doped lanthanum cobaltite La0.6Sr0.4CoO3−δat 1531 K: possible diffusion path of oxygen ions in an electrode material

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1166-1168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masatomo Yashima ◽  
Takayuki Tsuji

The crystal structure of a cubic Pm\overline 3 m perovskite-type doped lanthanum cobaltite, La0.6Sr0.4CoO3−δ, has been studied usingin situneutron powder diffraction data measured at 1531 K. The refined occupancy 0.886 (6) of O atoms at the 3d1/2, 0, 0 site indicated an oxygen deficiency of δ = 0.34 (2) and an average valence of +2.7 for Co cations in La0.6Sr0.4CoO3−δat 1531 K. Refined anisotropic atomic displacement parameters and nuclear density mapping reveal that the oxygen ions in La0.6Sr0.4CoO3−δexhibit a large thermal motion perpendicular to the Co—O bond. A curved path for oxygen-ion migration between adjacent anion sites in La0.6Sr0.4CoO3−δis proposed, although it was not observed as a connected density in the experimental mapping.

2003 ◽  
Vol 81 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 431-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
C J Rawn ◽  
A J Rondinone ◽  
B C Chakoumakos ◽  
S Circone ◽  
L A Stern ◽  
...  

Neutron powder diffraction data confirm that hydrate samples synthesized with propane crystallize as structure type II hydrate. The structure has been modeled using rigid-body constraints to describe C3H8 molecules located in the eight larger polyhedral cavities of a deuterated host lattice. Data were collected at 12, 40, 100, 130, 160, 190, 220, and 250 K and used to calculate the thermal expansivity from the temperature dependence of the lattice parameters. The data collected allowed for full structural refinement of atomic coordinates and the atomic-displacement parameters. PACS No.: 61.12-q


2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 511-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Th. Leventouri ◽  
B. C. Chakoumakos ◽  
H. Y. Moghaddam ◽  
V. Perdikatsis

Atomic positional disorder of a single-phase natural carbonate fluorapatite (francolite) is revealed from analysis of the atomic displacement parameters (ADPs) refined from neutron powder diffraction data as a function of temperature and carbonate content. The ADPs of the francolite show a strong disturbance at the P, O3, and F sites. When it is heat treated to partially or completely remove the carbonate, the ADPs as well as the other structural parameters resemble those of a fluorapatite (Harding pegmatite) that was measured under the same conditions. The various structural changes are consistent with a substitution mechanism whereby the planar carbonate group replaces a phosphate group and lies on the mirror plane of the apatite structure.


2012 ◽  
Vol 116 (8) ◽  
pp. 5246-5254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Ching Chen ◽  
Masatomo Yashima ◽  
Takashi Ohta ◽  
Kenji Ohoyama ◽  
Shinji Yamamoto

1999 ◽  
Vol 599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Th. Leventouri ◽  
H. Y. Moghaddam ◽  
N. Papanearchou ◽  
C. E. Bunaciu ◽  
R. L. Levinson ◽  
...  

AbstractWe present a comparison between detailed structural parameters of a low temperature synthetic carbonate hydroxyapatite, a hydroxyapatite, and a natural carbonate fluorapatite from Rietveld refinements of neutron powder diffraction data. The observed modifications in the crystallographic parameters of the synthetic carbonate apatite are consistent with the carbonate substitution on the mirror plane of the tetrahedral site as in the case of the natural carbonate apatite.


Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Seungyeol Lee ◽  
Huifang Xu ◽  
Hongwu Xu ◽  
Joerg Neuefeind

The crystal structure of moganite from the Mogán formation on Gran Canaria has been re-investigated using high-resolution synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray/neutron pair distribution function (PDF) analyses. Our study for the first time reports the anisotropic atomic displacement parameters (ADPs) of a natural moganite. Rietveld analysis of synchrotron XRD data determined the crystal structure of moganite with the space group I2/a. The refined unit-cell parameters are a = 8.7363(8), b = 4.8688(5), c = 10.7203(9) Å, and β = 90.212(4)°. The ADPs of Si and O in moganite were obtained from X-ray and neutron PDF analyses. The shapes and orientations of the anisotropic ellipsoids determined from X-ray and neutron measurements are similar. The anisotropic ellipsoids for O extend along planes perpendicular to the Si-Si axis of corner-sharing SiO4 tetrahedra, suggesting precession-like movement. Neutron PDF result confirms the occurrence of OH over some of the tetrahedral sites. We postulate that moganite nanomineral is stable with respect to quartz in hypersaline water. The ADPs of moganite show a similar trend as those of quartz determined by single-crystal XRD. In short, the combined methods can provide high-quality structural parameters of moganite nanomineral, including its ADPs and extra OH position at the surface. This approach can be used as an alternative means for solving the structures of crystals that are not large enough for single-crystal XRD measurements, such as fine-grained and nanocrystalline minerals formed in various geological environments.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 044701
Author(s):  
Zhen Su ◽  
Medhanjali Dasgupta ◽  
Frédéric Poitevin ◽  
Irimpan I. Mathews ◽  
Henry van den Bedem ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heribert A. Graetsch ◽  
Chandra Shekhar Pandey ◽  
Jürgen Schreuer ◽  
Manfred Burianek ◽  
Manfred Mühlberg

The incommensurately modulated crystal structures of Ca0.28Ba0.72Nb2O6 (CBN28) and Ce0.02Ca0.25Ba0.72Nb2O6 (Ce:CBN28) were refined in the supercentred setting X4bm(AA0,−AA0) of the 3 + 2-dimensional superspace group P4bm(aa½,−aa½). Both compounds are isostructural with a tetragonal tungsten bronze-type structure. The modulation of CBN28 consists of a wavy distribution of Ba and Ca atoms as well as vacancies on the incompletely occupied Me2 site with 15-fold oxygen coordination. The occupational modulation is coupled with a modulation of the atomic displacement parameters and a very weak modulation of the positional parameters of Me2. The surrounding O atoms show strong displacive modulations with amplitudes up to ca 0.2 Å owing to the cooperative tilting of the rigid NbO6 octahedra. The Me1 site with 12-fold coordination and Nb atoms are hardly affected by the modulations. Only first-order satellites were observed and the modulations are described by first-order harmonics. In Ce:CBN28 cerium appears to be located on both the Me2 and Me1 sites. Wavevectors and structural modulations are only weakly modified upon substitutional incorporation of 0.02 cerium per formula unit of calcium.


2010 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sławomir Domagała ◽  
Parthapratim Munshi ◽  
Maqsood Ahmed ◽  
Benoît Guillot ◽  
Christian Jelsch

The multipolar atom model, constructed by transferring the charge-density parameters from an experimental or theoretical database, is considered to be an easy replacement of the widely used independent atom model. The present study on a new crystal structure of quercetin monohydrate [2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-3,5,7-trihydroxy-4H-chromen-4-one monohydrate], a plant flavonoid, determined by X-ray diffraction, demonstrates that the transferred multipolar atom model approach greatly improves several factors: the accuracy of atomic positions and the magnitudes of atomic displacement parameters, the residual electron densities and the crystallographic figures of merit. The charge-density features, topological analysis and electrostatic interaction energies obtained from the multipole models based on experimental database transfer and periodic quantum mechanical calculations are found to compare well. This quantitative and comparative study shows that in the absence of high-resolution diffraction data, the database transfer approach can be applied to the multipolar electron density features very accurately.


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