Distorted chiolite crystal structures of α-Na5M3F14 (M=Cr,Fe,Ga) studied by X-ray powder diffraction

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Le Bail ◽  
A.-M. Mercier
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Rietveld Refinements ◽  
Space Group ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Precise Characterization

The crystal structures of the chiolite-related room temperature phases α-Na5M3F14 (MIII=Cr,Fe,Ga) are determined. For all of them, the space group is P21/n, Z=2; a=10.5096(3) Å, b=7.2253(2) Å, c=7.2713(2) Å, β=90.6753(7)° (M=Cr); a=10.4342(7) Å, b=7.3418(6) Å, c=7.4023(6) Å, β=90.799(5)° (M=Fe), and a=10.4052(1) Å, b=7.2251(1) Å, c=7.2689(1), β=90.6640(4)° (M=Ga). Rietveld refinements produce final RF factors 0.036, 0.033, and 0.035, and RWP factors, 0.125, 0.116, and 0.096, for MIII=Cr, Fe, and Ga, respectively. The MF6 polyhedra in the defective isolated perovskite-like layers deviate very few from perfect octahedra. Subtle octahedra tiltings lead to the symmetry decrease from the P4/mnc space group adopted by the Na5Al3F14 chiolite aristotype to the P21/n space group adopted by the title series. Facile twinning precluded till now the precise characterization of these compounds.

The crystal structures of Cu1•8Se, Cu3Se2, α- and γCuSe, CuSe2, and CuSe2II

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 841-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Donald Heyding ◽  
Ritchie MacLaren Murray
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Unit Cell ◽  
Intensity Data ◽  
Diffraction Intensity ◽  
Space Group ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Tetrahedral Sites

The crystal structures of a number of copper selenides have been re-examined using X-ray powder diffraction intensity data. |F0| values for Cu1•8Se at room temperature (a = 5.765 Å) are satisfied by a model based on space group Fm3m with 4 Se atoms per unit cell on the fcc sites, 5.2 Cu atoms on the tetrahedral sites, and 2.0 Cu atoms on the trigonal sites in the Se sublattice. Cu3Se2 is tetragonal, [Formula: see text] a = 6.402, c = 4.279 Å, with Cu(1) in 2(a), Cu(2) in 4(e) with x = 0.147 ± 5, z = 0.781 ± 9, and Se in 4(e) with x = 0.272 ± 3, z = 0.264 ± 7. CuSe2 has the orthorhombic C18 marcasite structure, Pnnm, a = 5.005, b = 6.182, c = 3.740 Å, with Cu in 2(a), and Se in 4(g) with x = 0.184 ± 1, y = 0.385 ± 1. CuSe2II has the cubic C2 pyrite structure, Pa3, a = 6.116 Å, with Cu in 4(a), and Se in 8(c) with x = 0.3891 ± 5.Neither αCuSe nor γCuSe have the CuS covellite structure.These results are discussed in some detail.

Crystal structures of room- and low-temperature phases in oxyfluoride (NH4)2KWO3F3

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Molokeev ◽  
A. D. Vasiliev ◽  
A. G. Kocharova
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Monoclinic Phase ◽  
Temperature Structure ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Space Group ◽  
X Ray

Crystal structures of (NH4)2KWO3F3 at 298 K and 113 K were solved from X-ray powder diffraction data and refined by the Rietveld technique. The compound is isostructural with elpasolite K2NaAlF6 at room temperature with space group Fm-3m, a=8.95850(5) Å, V=718.961(7) Å3, Z=4, Dx=3.363 g/cm3, and MW=364.02. The structure was refined over 18 parameters to Rwp=12.6%, Rp=10.9%, Rexp=5.03%, and RB=3.27% from 40 independent reflections. (NH4)2KWO3F3 was transformed upon cooling to a ferroelastic monoclinic phase with space group P21/n, a′=6.3072(3) Å, b′=6.3028(3) Å, c′=8.9882(3) Å, β′=90.242(2)°, V=357.30(3) Å3, Z=2, and Dx=3.383 g/cm3. The low-temperature structure at 113 K was refined over 28 parameters to Rwp=20.9%, Rp=21.3%, Rexp=12.5%, and RB=6.93% from 453 independent reflections.

X-ray powder diffraction structural characterization of Pb1 − x Ba x Zr0.65Ti0.35O3 ceramic

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 713-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mir ◽  
V. R. Mastelaro ◽  
P. P. Neves ◽  
A. C. Doriguetto ◽  
D. Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Rietveld Refinements ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cubic Structure ◽  
Good Agreement

The structure of Pb1 − x Ba x Zr0.65Ti0.35O3 (PBZT) ceramic materials with 0.00 ≤ x ≤ 0.40 was studied using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction data. According to the Rietveld refinements, the structure of PBZT ceramics with x = 0.00, 0.10 and 0.20 at room temperature was rhombohedral R3c. A phase transition from rhombohedral to cubic was observed at 543 and 463 K for x = 0.10 and 0.20, respectively. The refinement for the compositions x = 0.30 and x = 0.40 showed a cubic structure from 10 to 450 K, in good agreement with the dielectric properties of these samples.

Structural characterization of two K2SnX(PO4)3 (X=Fe,Yb) with langbeinite structure

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abderrahim Aatiq ◽  
Btissame Haggouch ◽  
Rachid Bakri ◽  
Youssef Lakhdar ◽  
Ismael Saadoune
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Cell Parameter ◽  
Rietveld Analysis ◽  
Conventional Solid State Reaction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Octahedral Sites ◽  
Parameter Values

Structures of two K2SnX(PO4)3(X=Fe,Yb) phosphates, obtained by conventional solid state reaction techniques at 950 °C, were determined at room temperature by X-ray powder diffraction using Rietveld analysis. The two materials exhibit the langbeinite-type structure (P213 space group, Z=4). Cubic unit cell parameter values are: a=9.9217(4) Å and a=10.1583(4) Å for K2SnFe(PO4)3 and K2SnYb(PO4)3, respectively. Structural refinements show that the two crystallographically independent octahedral sites (of symmetry 3) have a mixed Sn∕X (X=Fe,Yb) population although ordering is stronger in the Yb phase than in the Fe phase.

Structure determination of the 1/1 α/β mixed lactose by X-ray powder diffraction

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Lefebvre ◽  
Jean-François Willart ◽  
Vincent Caron ◽  
Ronan Lefort ◽  
Frédéric Affouard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Size Effects ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Hydroxyl Groups ◽  
Soft Constraints ◽  
Rietveld Refinements ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Mixed Compound

The mixed form of α/β lactose was obtained by heating amorphous α-lactose at 443 K. NMR spectroscopy determined the stoichiometry of this mixed compound to be 1/1. The X-ray powder diffraction pattern was recorded at room temperature with a sensitive curved detector (CPS 120). The structure was solved by real-space methods (simulated annealing) followed by Rietveld refinements with soft constraints on bond lengths and bond angles. The H atoms of the hydroxyl groups were localized by minimization of the crystalline energy. The cell of 1/1 α/β lactose is triclinic with the space group P1 and contains two molecules (one molecule of each anomer). The crystalline cohesion is achieved by networks of O—H...O hydrogen bonds. The width of the Bragg peaks is interpreted through a microstructural approach in terms of isotropic strain effects and anisotropic size effects.

The crystal structures of solvent-free alkali-metal squarates from powder diffraction data

2005 ◽  
Vol 220 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Dinnebier ◽  
Hanne Nuss ◽  
Martin Jansen
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Alkali Metal ◽  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Solvent Free ◽  
Crystallographic Data ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
X Ray

AbstractThe crystal structures of solvent-free lithium, sodium, rubidium, and cesium squarates have been determined from high resolution synchrotron and X-ray laboratory powder patterns. Crystallographic data at room temperature of Li

The BaAl4 Structure and its Derivatives from the R-Zn-Ga Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy Verbovytskyy ◽  
Antonio Pereira Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Space Group ◽  
X Ray ◽  
First Time

Seven new ternary RZn1+xGa3-x (R = Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Ho and Er) and R5Zn2Ga17 (R = Ce) phases are synthesized for the first time. Their crystal structures are solved on basis of X-ray powder diffraction data. The above mentioned compounds belong to the BaAl4 (space group I4/mmm) and Rb5Hg19 (space group I4/m) structure types. Details of the structure of the Ce5Zn2Ga17 compound and relationship with RZn2-xGa2+x (BaAl4 type) and R3Zn8-xGa3+x (La3Al11 type) are briefly discussed.

Structure determination of the stable anhydrous phase of α-lactose from X-ray powder diffraction

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Platteau ◽  
Jacques Lefebvre ◽  
Frederic Affouard ◽  
Jean-François Willart ◽  
Patrick Derollez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Hydroxyl Groups ◽  
Rietveld Refinements ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Hydrogen Bond Networks ◽  
Monte Carlo Simulated Annealing ◽  
Annealing Method

The stable anhydrous form of α-lactose has been obtained by the dehydration of α-lactose monohydrate in methanol. An X-ray powder diffraction pattern was recorded at room temperature with a laboratory diffractometer equipped with an INEL curved sensitive detector CPS120. The starting structural model of this form was found by a Monte-Carlo simulated annealing method. The structure was obtained through Rietveld refinements and the minimization of crystalline energy for the localization of the H atoms of the hydroxyl groups. Soft restraints were applied to bond lengths and angles. Networks of O—H...O hydrogen bonds account for the crystalline cohesion. A comparison is made between the hydrogen-bond networks of this form and those of the monohydrate and hygroscopic anhydrous forms of α-lactose.

Determination of the crystal structure of magnesium perchlorate hydrates by X-ray powder diffraction and the charge-flipping method

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 579-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Robertson ◽  
David Bish
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Fundamental Parameter ◽  
Magnesium Perchlorate ◽  
Space Group ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Partial Pressures ◽  
Dehydration Reactions

X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) data were used to solve the crystal structures of phases in the magnesium perchlorate hydrate system, Mg(ClO4)2·nH2O (n = 4, 2). A heating stage and humidity generator interfaced to an environmental cell enabled in-situ XRD analyses of dehydration reactions under controlled temperatures and partial pressures of H2O (P_{{\rm H}_2{\rm O}}). The crystal structures were determined using an ab initio charge-flipping method and were refined using fundamental-parameter Rietveld methods. Dehydration of magnesium perchlorate hexahydrate to tetrahydrate (348 K) results in a decrease in symmetry (space group = C2), where isolated Mg2+ cations are equatorially coordinated by four H2O molecules with two [ClO4]− tetrahedra at the apices. Further dehydration to the dihydrate (423 K) leads to bridging of the isolated packets to form double corner-sharing chains of octahedra and polyhedra (space group = C2/m).

X-ray powder diffraction data for compound DyNiSn

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-135
Author(s):  
Liangqin Nong ◽  
Lingmin Zeng ◽  
Jianmin Hao
Keyword(s):  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Figure Of Merit ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Unit Cell ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Space Group ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Diffraction Patterns

The compound DyNiSn has been studied by X-ray powder diffraction. The X-ray diffraction patterns for this compound at room temperature are reported. DyNiSn is orthorhombic with lattice parameters a=7.1018(1) Å, b=7.6599(2) Å, c=4.4461(2) Å, space group Pna21 and 4 formula units of DyNiSn in unit cell. The Smith and Snyder Figure-of-Merit F30 for this powder pattern is 26.7(0.0178,63).

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