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Crystals, Volume 7, Issue 1

January 2017 - 30 articles

Cover Story: KSbTeO6 exhibits a defect pyrochlore structure defined in the cubic Fd3m symmetry. The mainly covalent network formed by vertex-sharing (Sb,Te)O6 octahedra, enables weak interatomic interactions with K+ ions. A combined XRD and NPD study showed that K+ are distributed at large multiplicity 32e Wyckoff sites with ¼ occupancy, placed in the center of large cages. The quite big anisotropic atomic displacement parameters account for the ease of ion exchange of this material to yield a product of technological importance, such as (H3O)SbTeO6. View this paper.
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,111 Views
10 Pages

Synthesis, Crystal Structure and DFT Studies of 1,3-Dimethyl-5-propionylpyrimidine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-trione

  • Anamika Sharma,
  • Yahya E. Jad,
  • Hazem A. Ghabbour,
  • Beatriz G. De la Torre,
  • Hendrik G. Kruger,
  • Fernando Albericio and
  • Ayman El-Faham

21 January 2017

Novel 1,3-Dimethyl-5-propionylpyrimidine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-trione was synthesized and recrystallized from ethanol. The compound was characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR in CDCl3, DMSO-d6 and acetone-d6, elemental analysis and X-ray diffraction. The NMR dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,067 Views
18 Pages

20 January 2017

Electrochemical sensor was fabricated based on carbon paste electrode modified with an ionic liquid crystal ILC (2-chloro-1,3-dimethyl-imidazolidinium hexafluorophosphate) in presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate for the selective electrochemical determ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,475 Views
14 Pages

Dirac Landau Level Spectroscopy in Pb1−xSnxSe and Pb1−xSnxTe across the Topological Phase Transition: A Review

  • Thanyanan Phuphachong,
  • Badih A. Assaf,
  • Valentine V. Volobuev,
  • Günther Bauer,
  • Gunther Springholz,
  • Louis-Anne De Vaulchier and
  • Yves Guldner

20 January 2017

Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are topological materials that have Dirac surface states occurring at crystalline symmetric points in the Brillouin zone. This topological state has been experimentally shown to occur in the lead–tin salts Pb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,624 Views
17 Pages

Colloidal Nanocrystalline Semiconductor Materials as Photocatalysts for Environmental Protection of Architectural Stone

  • Francesca Petronella,
  • Antonella Pagliarulo,
  • Marinella Striccoli,
  • Angela Calia,
  • Mariateresa Lettieri,
  • Donato Colangiuli,
  • Maria Lucia Curri and
  • Roberto Comparelli

20 January 2017

Rod-shaped TiO2 nanocrystals (TiO2 NRs), capped by oleic acid molecules (OLEA), were synthesized with controlled size, shape and surface chemistry by using colloidal routes. They were investigated for application as coating materials for preserving a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,135 Views
13 Pages

20 January 2017

Three novel zwitterionic coordination polymers, namely, {[Zn(HCbdcp)2]·H2O} (1), {[Mn(Cbdcp)]·3H2O} (2) and {[Cu2(Cbdcp)(HCbdcp)Cl·H2O]·2H2O} (3), Cbdcp = 3,5-dicarboxy-1-(4-carboxybenzyl)pyridin-1-ium, have been prepared by a hydrothermal method and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,385 Views
8 Pages

18 January 2017

In this paper, the influence of alkyl trimethyl ammonium bromides (CnH2n+1(CH3)3NBr, n = 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, abbreviated as ATAB) on the formation of alpha calcium sulfate hemihydrate (α-CaSO4·0.5H2O) whiskers under a hydrothermal condition (135 °C,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,682 Views
10 Pages

18 January 2017

Quantitative analysis by X-ray powder diffraction of two cokes (pitch coke and petroleum coke) shows that their crystal structure changed with increasing temperature. The crystal data processing of the crystallization degree of disorder is used with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
13,478 Views
15 Pages

Numerical Modelling of the Czochralski Growth of β-Ga2O3

  • Wolfram Miller,
  • Klaus Böttcher,
  • Zbigniew Galazka and
  • Jürgen Schreuer

17 January 2017

Our numerical modelling of the Czochralski growth of single crystalline β-Ga 2 O 3 crystals (monoclinic symmetry) starts at the 2D heat transport analysis within the crystal growth furnace, proceeds with the 3D heat transport and fluid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,689 Views
22 Pages

Four Thermochromic o-Hydroxy Schiff Bases of α-Aminodiphenylmethane: Solution and Solid State Study

  • Marija Zbačnik,
  • Katarina Pičuljan,
  • Jelena Parlov-Vuković,
  • Predrag Novak and
  • Andreas Roodt

14 January 2017

More than a hundred years after the first studies of the photo- and thermochromism of o-hydroxy Schiff bases (imines), it is still an intriguing topic that fascinates several research groups around the world. The reasons for such behavior are still u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,714 Views
7 Pages

Potassium Disorder in the Defect Pyrochlore KSbTeO6: A Neutron Diffraction Study

  • José Antonio Alonso,
  • Sergio Mayer,
  • Horacio Falcón,
  • Xabier Turrillas and
  • María Teresa Fernández-Díaz

13 January 2017

KSbTeO6 defect pyrochlore has been prepared from K2C2O4, Sb2O3, and 15% excess TeO2 by solid-state reaction at 850 °C. Direct methods implemented in the software EXPO2013 allowed establishing the basic structural framework. This was followed by a com...

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Crystals - ISSN 2073-4352