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Structure Determination and Analysis of the Ceramic Material La0.987Ti1.627Nb3.307O13 by Synchrotron and Neutron Powder Diffraction and DFT Calculations
by Katarina Stare, Jernej Stare, Srečo Davor Škapin, Matjaž Spreitzer and Anton Meden
Crystals 2023, 13(3), 439; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13030439 - 3 Mar 2023
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In this paper, the ternary system La2O3-TiO2-Nb2O5 is studied to find new ternary phases with useful electrical properties. The solid solution La3−xTi5−3xNb10−2xO39.5−12.5x was recently identified, and this [...] Read more.
In this paper, the ternary system La2O3-TiO2-Nb2O5 is studied to find new ternary phases with useful electrical properties. The solid solution La3−xTi5−3xNb10−2xO39.5−12.5x was recently identified, and this study focuses on the structural characterization of this solid solution with x = 0.04. The crystal structure, representing a new structural type, was determined from synchrotron and neutron powder diffraction data. The unit cell parameters are a = 7.332 Å, b = 7.421 Å, c = 10.673 Å, α = 84.15°, ß = 80.16°, γ = 60.37°, and space group P1¯. The titanium and niobium atoms are disordered in five different crystallographic sites coordinated octahedrally by oxygen atoms. The eight-coordinated La atoms are embedded in the octahedral framework. Ti and Nb preferentially occupy different sites, and this feature was studied using periodic density functional theory methods. Energies of possible Ti/Nb distributions were calculated and the results agree well with the site occupancies obtained by combined Rietveld refinement of synchrotron and neutron powder diffraction patterns. The geometries optimized by DFT also agree well with the structural parameters determined by diffraction. The general agreement between the theoretical calculations and the experimental data justifies the quantum chemical methods as reliable complementary tools for the structural investigation of ceramic materials. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Investigation of Ceramic Materials)
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