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Shen K, Yang Q, Qiu P, Zhou Z, Yang S, Wei TR, Shi X. Ductile P-Type AgCu(Se,S,Te) Thermoelectric Materials. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024:e2407424. [PMID: 38967315 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202407424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2024] [Revised: 06/28/2024] [Indexed: 07/06/2024]
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Ductile inorganic thermoelectric (TE) materials open a new approach to develop high-performance flexible TE devices. N-type Ag2(S,Se,Te) and p-type AgCu(Se,S,Te) pseudoternary solid solutions are two typical categories of ductile inorganic TE materials reported so far. Comparing with the Ag2(S,Se,Te) pseudoternary solid solutions, the phase composition, crystal structure, and physical properties of AgCu(Se,S,Te) pseudoternary solid solutions are more complex, but their relationships are still ambiguous now. In this work, via systematically investigating the phase composition, crystal structure, mechanical, and TE properties of about 60 AgCu(Se,S,Te) pseudoternary solid solutions, the comprehensive composition-structure-property phase diagrams of the AgCuSe-AgCuS-AgCuTe pseudoternary system is constructed. By mapping the complex phases, the "ductile-brittle" and "n-p" transition boundaries are determined and the composition ranges with high TE performance and inherent ductility are illustrated. On this basis, high performance p-type ductile TE materials are obtained, with a maximum zT of 0.81 at 340 K. Finally, flexible in-plane TE devices are prepared by using the AgCu(Se,S,Te)-based ductile TE materials, showing high output performance that is superior to those of organic and inorganic-organic hybrid flexible devices.
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- Kelin Shen
- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, 310024, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Yang Q, Ming C, Qiu P, Zhou Z, Qiu X, Gao Z, Deng T, Chen L, Shi X. Incommensurately Modulated Structure in AgCuSe-Based Thermoelectric Materials for Intriguing Electrical, Thermal, and Mechanical Properties. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023; 19:e2300699. [PMID: 36843312 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202300699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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AgCuSe-based materials have attracted great attentions recently in thermoelectric (TE) field due to their extremely high electron mobility, ultralow lattice thermal conductivity, and abnormal "brittle-ductile" transition at room temperature. However, although the investigation on the crystal structure of AgCuSe low-temperature phase (named as β-AgCuSe) was started more than half a century before, it is still in controversy yet, which greatly limits the understanding of its intriguing electrical, thermal, and mechanical performance. In this work, via adopting the advanced three-dimensional electron diffraction technique, this study finds that the AgCuSe-based materials crystalize in an incommensurately modulated structure with an orthorhombic Pmmn(0β1/2)s00 superspace group. The local lattice distortion in the incommensurately modulated structure has weak effects on the conduction band minimum due to the delocalized and isotropic feature of Ag 5s states, leading to high carrier mobility. Likewise, the inhomogeneous, weak, and anisotropic Ag-Se bonds result in the high degree of anharmonicity and ultralow lattice thermal conductivity. Furthermore, alloying S in AgCuSe reinforces the interaction between the adjacent Ag-Se layers, yielding the "brittle-ductile" transition at room temperature. This work well interprets the structure-performance relationship of AgCuSe-based materials and sheds light on the future investigation of this class of promising TE materials.
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- Qingyu Yang
- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, 310024, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, 310024, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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Lu Y, Chen J, Coupin MJ, Sinha S, Warner JH. Lattice-Mismatch-Driven Small-Angle Moiré Twists in Epitaxially Grown 2D Vertical Layered Heterostructures. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2205403. [PMID: 36043938 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202205403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Revised: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Artificially introduced small twist angles at the interfaces of vertical layered heterostructures (VLHs) have allowed deterministic tuning of electronic and optical properties such as strongly correlated electronic phases and Moiré excitons. But creating a Moiré twist in van der Waals (vdWs) systems by manual stacking is challenging in reproducibility, uniformity, and accuracy of the twist angle, which hinders future studies. Here, it is demonstrated that contrary to the commonly believed 0°-orientation in vdWs epitaxy, these VLHs show small twist angles controlled by the low-order commensurate phase with low energy and local atomic relaxation. A commensurate multilevel map is proposed to predict possible orientations. Remarkably, high-mismatch VLHs show discrete and sometimes non-zero twist angles dependent on their natural mismatch value. Such framework is experimentally confirmed in five epitaxially grown VLHs under high-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM), and can provide significant insights for large-scale engineering of twist angle in VLHs.
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- Yang Lu
- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK
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- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK
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- Material Sciences and Engineering Program, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA
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- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK
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- Material Sciences and Engineering Program, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA
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Mukhopadhyay NK, Yadav TP. Quasicrystals: A New Class of Structurally Complex Intermetallics. J Indian Inst Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s41745-022-00293-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Parkin SR. Practical hints and tips for solution of pseudo-merohedric twins: three case studies. Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun 2021; 77:452-465. [PMID: 34026247 PMCID: PMC8100258 DOI: 10.1107/s205698902100342x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Twinning by pseudo-merohedry is a common phenomenon in small-mol-ecule crystallography. In cases where twin-component volume fractions are markedly different, structure solution is often no more difficult than for non-twinned structures of similar complexity. When twin-component volume fractions are similar, however, structure solution can be much more of a problem. This paper presents hints and tips for such cases by means of three worked examples. The first example presents the most common (and simplest) case of a two-component pseudo-ortho-rhom-bic twin. The second example describes structure solution of a reticular threefold pseudo-hexa-gonal twin that benefits from use of an unconventional space-group setting. The third example covers structure solution of a reticular fourfold pseudo-tetra-gonal twin. All three structures are ultimately shown to be monoclinic crystals that twin as a consequence of unit-cell metrics that mimic those of higher symmetry crystal systems.
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- S. R. Parkin
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
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Qian Q, Shen X, Luo D, Jia L, Kozina M, Li R, Lin MF, Reid AH, Weathersby S, Park S, Yang J, Zhou Y, Zhang K, Wang X, Huang S. Coherent Lattice Wobbling and Out-of-Phase Intensity Oscillations of Friedel Pairs Observed by Ultrafast Electron Diffraction. ACS NANO 2020; 14:8449-8458. [PMID: 32538617 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c02643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The inspection of Friedel's law in ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) is important to gain a comprehensive understanding of material atomic structure and its dynamic response. Here, monoclinic gallium telluride (GaTe), as a low-symmetry, layered crystal in contrast to many other 2D materials, is investigated by mega-electronvolt UED. Strong out-of-phase oscillations of Bragg peak intensities are observed for Friedel pairs, which does not obey Friedel's law. As evidenced by the preserved mirror symmetry and supported by both kinematic and dynamic scattering simulations, the intensity oscillations are provoked by the lowest-order longitudinal acoustic breathing phonon. Our results provide a generalized understanding of Friedel's law in UED and demonstrate that by designed misalignment of surface normal and primitive lattice vectors, coherent lattice wobbling and effective shear strain can be generated in crystal films by laser pulse excitation, which is otherwise hard to achieve and can be further utilized to dynamically tune and switch material properties.
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- Qingkai Qian
- Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Mitchell Warden HE, Lee SB, Fredrickson DC. Frustrated and Allowed Structural Transitions at the Limits of the BaAl 4 Type: The (3 + 2)D Modulated Structure of Dy(Cu 0.18Ga 0.82) 3.71. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:10208-10222. [PMID: 32644782 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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While elemental substitution is the most common way of tuning properties in solid state compounds, this approach can break down in fantastic ways when the stability range of a structure type is exceeded. In this article, we apply the Frustrated and Allowed Structural Transitions (FAST) principle to understand how structural complexity, in this case incommensurate modulations, can emerge at the composition limits of one common intermetallic framework, the BaAl4 type. While the Dy-Ga binary intermetallic system contains no phases related to the BaAl4 archetype, adding Cu to form a ternary system creates a composition region that is rich in such phases, including some whose structures remain unknown. We begin with an analysis of electronic and atomic packing issues faced by the hypothetical BaAl4-type phase DyGa4 and a La3Al11-type variant (in which a fraction of Ga2 pairs are substituted by single Ga atoms). Through an inspection of its electronic density of states (DOS) distribution and DFT-Chemical Pressure (CP) scheme, we see that the stability of BaAl4-type DyGa4 is limited by an excess of electrons and overly large coordination environments around the Dy atoms, with the latter factor being particularly limiting. The inclusion of Cu into the system is anticipated to soothe both issues through the lowering of the valence electron count and the release of positive CPs between atoms surrounding the Dy atoms. With this picture in mind, we then move to an experimental investigation of the Dy-Cu-Ga system, elucidating the structure of Dy(Cu0.18Ga0.82)3.71(1). In this compound, the BaAl4 type is subject to a 2D incommensurate modulation (q1 = 0.31a* + 0.2b*, q2 = 0.31a* - 0.2b*), which can be modeled in the (3+2)D superspace group Pmmm(αβ0)000(α-β0)000. The resulting structure solution contains blocks of the La3Al11 type, with the corners of these domains serving to shrink the Dy coordination environments. These results highlight how the addition of a well-chosen third element to a binary system with a missing-but plausible-compound (BaAl4-type DyGa4) can bring it to the cusp of stability with intriguing structural consequences.
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- Hillary E Mitchell Warden
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Paufler P. William Barlow’s early publications in the ‘Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie’ and their influence on crystal structure research. Z KRIST-CRYST MATER 2019. [DOI: 10.1515/zkri-2019-0044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The English crystallographer William Barlow is famous for two achievements, both published in German, in Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie between 1894 and 1901. They concern the derivation of all possible symmetrical arrangements of points in space and the idea to represent crystal structures by replacing points by spheres. His results had an impact upon crystal structure modelling and describing crystal morphology. Utilizing self-made models, he found the 230 space group types of symmetry obtained earlier by both E. S. Fedorow and A. Schoenflies in a different manner. The structures he proposed before the discovery of X-ray diffraction served in some cases as starting point for the interpretation of diffraction patterns thereafter.
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- Peter Paufler
- Institut für Festkörper- und Materialphysik, Fakultät Physik , Technische Universität Dresden , Haeckelstr. 3 , 01069 Dresden , Germany
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Beekman M, Cahill DG. Inorganic Crystals with Glass‐Like and Ultralow Thermal Conductivities†. CRYSTAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/crat.201700114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Matt Beekman
- Department of Physics California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo CA 93407 USA
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- Department of Material Science and Engineering and F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign Urbana IL 61801 USA
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Deterministic composite nanophotonic lattices in large area for broadband applications. Sci Rep 2016; 6:38744. [PMID: 27941869 PMCID: PMC5150530 DOI: 10.1038/srep38744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2016] [Accepted: 11/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Exotic manipulation of the flow of photons in nanoengineered materials with an aperiodic distribution of nanostructures plays a key role in efficiency-enhanced broadband photonic and plasmonic technologies for spectrally tailorable integrated biosensing, nanostructured thin film solarcells, white light emitting diodes, novel plasmonic ensembles etc. Through a generic deterministic nanotechnological route here we show subwavelength-scale silicon (Si) nanostructures on nanoimprinted glass substrate in large area (4 cm2) with advanced functional features of aperiodic composite nanophotonic lattices. These nanophotonic aperiodic lattices have easily tailorable supercell tiles with well-defined and discrete lattice basis elements and they show rich Fourier spectra. The presented nanophotonic lattices are designed functionally akin to two-dimensional aperiodic composite lattices with unconventional flexibility- comprising periodic photonic crystals and/or in-plane photonic quasicrystals as pattern design subsystems. The fabricated composite lattice-structured Si nanostructures are comparatively analyzed with a range of nanophotonic structures with conventional lattice geometries of periodic, disordered random as well as in-plane quasicrystalline photonic lattices with comparable lattice parameters. As a proof of concept of compatibility with advanced bottom-up liquid phase crystallized (LPC) Si thin film fabrication, the experimental structural analysis is further extended to double-side-textured deterministic aperiodic lattice-structured 10 μm thick large area LPC Si film on nanoimprinted substrates.
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Crystal growth of incommensurate members of 2H-hexagonal perovskite related oxides: Ba4M Pt3−O9 (M=Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Mg, Pt). J SOLID STATE CHEM 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2015.10.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Zhou Z, Palatinus L, Sun J. Structure determination of modulated structures by powder X-ray diffraction and electron diffraction. Inorg Chem Front 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6qi00219f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The combination of PXRD and ED is applied to determine modulated structures which resist solution by more conventional methods.
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- Zhengyang Zhou
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- People's Republic of China
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
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- Institute of Physics of the CAS
- v.v.i
- 182 21 Prague
- Czech Republic
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- Peking University
- Beijing 100871
- People's Republic of China
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Pina CM, López-Acevedo V. Eighteenth-century forms of quasicrystals. Acta Crystallogr A Found Adv 2016; 72:81-4. [DOI: 10.1107/s2053273315021865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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A careful inspection of the drawings and baked clay models created by the mineralogist Romé de L'Isle in the 18th century has revealed the existence of a number of intriguing forms with pentagonal symmetries. These forms cannot be classified in any of the 32 crystal classes. They can thus be considered the first crystallographic descriptions of polyhedral forms found in quasicrystals two centuries later. This paper presents a symmetry analysis of the fascinating drawings and clay models with pentagonal symmetries described in the bookCristallographiepublished in 1783 by Romé de L'Isle, as well as a comparison with quasicrystals recently synthesized. The paper also briefly discusses what could induce Romé de L'Isle to consider forms with pentagonal symmetries as plausible crystal forms.
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Vilcinskas K, Norder B, Goubitz K, Mulder FM, Koper GJM, Picken SJ. Tunable Order in Alginate/Graphene Biopolymer Nanocomposites. Macromolecules 2015. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- Karolis Vilcinskas
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan
136, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan
136, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Radiation Science and Technology, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 15, 2629 JB Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan
136, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan
136, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan
136, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands
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Zimmermann I, Corgnet A, Johnsson M, Lidin S. Synthesis and crystal structure of a series of incommensurately modulated composite oxohalide compounds. Dalton Trans 2014; 43:15812-7. [PMID: 25220376 DOI: 10.1039/c4dt02084g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Transparent, needle-like single crystals of the isostructural compounds [Sb4O7+3δX4][Zn3]1+δ (X = Cl, Br, I) δ ≈ 0.2 were obtained from chemical reactions in evacuated and sealed silica tubes. First, the average structure was solved in P21/n but the model refined poorly and a lowering of the symmetry to the 3 + 1 dimensional space group P21(α0γ)0 gave a significantly better fit to the data. This model used second order positional modulations for all the atoms. Whereas Sb, Cl (Br, I) and most O positions were well behaved, there was a mismatch with Zn that was better described in a sub-cell, thus yielding a composite structure. The composite nature of the structure leads to a charge imbalance that is compensated by oxygen vacancies.
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- Iwan Zimmermann
- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Chupakhina TI, Melkozerova MA, Bazuev GV. Phase formation features and magnetic properties of complex oxides in the systems Sr-Co-M-O (M = Zn, Cu). RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2013. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023613030054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Bechmann M, Clark J, Sebald A. Genetic algorithms and solid state NMR pulse sequences. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2013; 228:66-75. [PMID: 23357428 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2012.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2012] [Revised: 12/17/2012] [Accepted: 12/21/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The use of genetic algorithms for the optimisation of magic angle spinning NMR pulse sequences is discussed. The discussion uses as an example the optimisation of the C7(2)(1) dipolar recoupling pulse sequence, aiming to achieve improved efficiency for spin systems characterised by large chemical shielding anisotropies and/or small dipolar coupling interactions. The optimised pulse sequence is found to be robust over a wide range of parameters, requires only minimal a priori knowledge of the spin system for experimental implementations with buildup rates being solely determined by the magnitude of the dipolar coupling interaction, but is found to be less broadbanded than the original C7(2)(1) pulse sequence. The optimised pulse sequence breaks the synchronicity between r.f. pulses and sample spinning.
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Kesel AJ, Weiss HC, Schönleber A, Day CW, Barnard DL, Detorio MA, Schinazi RF. Antiviral agents derived from novel 1-adamantyl singlet nitrenes. Antivir Chem Chemother 2012; 23:113-28. [PMID: 23234699 DOI: 10.3851/imp2485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/21/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Amantadine constitutes an interesting, diamond crystal lattice-shaped, antivirally active amine with an inhibitory effect on influenza A viruses causing common 'flu' in humans. Unfortunately, amantadine forfeited most of its therapeutic potential because of resistance development in recent influenza A virus isolates. The antiviral efficacy of amantadine congeners can be chemically modified, resulting in re-constitution, improvement and/or extension of antiviral activities mediated by amino-adamantyls. METHODS Newly synthesized compounds were evaluated towards HIV type-1 (HIV-1) replication in primary human lymphocytes. One N-phenacyl amantadine derivative was investigated for inhibiting the in vitro replication of respiratory viruses (influenza A viruses, influenza B virus, human parainfluenza virus type 3 and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus). RESULTS Two ketone-stabilized 1-adamantyl singlet nitrenes were discovered serendipitously. To our best knowledge these are the first persistently stable nitrenes to be reported. Their structure was proved by determining the X-ray single crystal structure of one hydrolytic elaboration product. This salt adduct revealed an incommensurately modulated crystal structure, which was solved by extensive computational refinement. We could show that ketone-stabilized 1-adamantyl singlet nitrenes are versatile synthons for the synthesis of antiviral drug candidates. An amantadine-folate conjugate was inhibitory on HIV-1 replication in primary human lymphocytes, and one N-phenacyl amantadine derivative was inhibitory towards low pathogenic avian influenza A virus (H5N1) replication in vitro. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that the aromatic-aliphatic ketone-stabilized 1-adamantyl singlet nitrenes, beyond being of fundamental interest in organic chemistry, represent versatile synthons for the synthesis of new amantadine-related potentially antiviral drugs.
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Michiue Y, Kimizuka N, Kanke Y, Mori T. Structure of (Ga2O3)2(ZnO)13 and a unified description of the homologous series (Ga2O3)2(ZnO)(2n + 1). ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B: STRUCTURAL SCIENCE 2012; 68:250-60. [PMID: 22610675 DOI: 10.1107/s0108768112016084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2011] [Accepted: 04/12/2012] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The structure of (Ga(2)O(3))(2)(ZnO)(13) has been determined by a single-crystal X-ray diffraction technique. In the monoclinic structure of the space group C2/m with cell parameters a = 19.66 (4), b = 3.2487 (5), c = 27.31 (2) Å, and β = 105.9 (1)°, a unit cell is constructed by combining the halves of the unit cell of Ga(2)O(3)(ZnO)(6) and Ga(2)O(3)(ZnO)(7) in the homologous series Ga(2)O(3)(ZnO)(m). The homologous series (Ga(2)O(3))(2)(ZnO)(2n + 1) is derived and a unified description for structures in the series is presented using the (3+1)-dimensional superspace formalism. The phases are treated as compositely modulated structures consisting of two subsystems. One is constructed by metal ions and another is by O ions. In the (3 + 1)-dimensional model, displacive modulations of ions are described by the asymmetric zigzag function with large amplitudes, which was replaced by a combination of the sawtooth function in refinements. Similarities and differences between the two homologous series (Ga(2)O(3))(2)(ZnO)(2n + 1) and Ga(2)O(3)(ZnO)(m) are clarified in (3 + 1)-dimensional superspace. The validity of the (3 + 1)-dimensional model is confirmed by the refinements of (Ga(2)O(3))(2)(ZnO)(13), while a few complex phenomena in the real structure are taken into account by modifying the model.
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- Yuichi Michiue
- National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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The ability of pressure to change inter-atomic distances strongly leads to a wide range of pressure-induced phenomena at high pressures: for example metallisation, amorphisation, superconductivity and polymerisation. Key to understanding these phenomena is the determination of the crystal structure using x-ray or neutron diffraction. The tools necessary to compress matter above 1 million atmospheres (1 Megabar or 100 GPa) were established by the mid 1970s, but it is only since the early 1990s that we have been able to determine the detailed crystal structures of materials at such pressures. In this chapter I briefly review the history of high-pressure crystallography, and describe the techniques used to obtain and study materials at high pressure. Recent crystallographic studies of elements are then used to illustrate what is now possible using modern detectors and synchrotron sources. Finally, I speculate as to what crystallographic studies might become possible over the next decade.
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- Malcolm I McMahon
- SUPA, Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.
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Boldyreva E. Teaching general chemistry, solid-state chemistry and crystallography in one comprehensive undergraduate course: can the effect be synergistic? J Appl Crystallogr 2010. [DOI: 10.1107/s0021889810027780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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An overview is presented of the various oxidic compounds, that exhibit low-dimensional magnetic properties. These include spin-ladder and spin-chain compounds as well as compounds with a low-dimensional electronic band responsible for the magnetic order. The basic structures at room temperature are presented, and their dimensionality is discussed. The structural variations with temperature and magnetic field are analysed. Particular attention is given to the superstructures as they occur upon phase transitions involving the development of magnetic order and charge order. The consequences of these superstructures for the interpretation of the physical properties are reviewed.
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Michiue Y, Kimizuka N. Superspace description of the homologous series Ga2O3(ZnO)m. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B: STRUCTURAL SCIENCE 2010; 66:117-29. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108768109053713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2009] [Accepted: 12/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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A unified description for the structures of the homologous series Ga2O3(ZnO)m, gallium zinc oxide, is presented using the superspace formalism. The structures were treated as a compositely modulated structure consisting of two subsystems. One is constructed with metal ions and the other with O ions. The ideal model is given, in which the displacive modulations of ions are well described by the zigzag function with large amplitudes. Alternative settings are also proposed which are analogous to the so-called modular structures. The validity of the model has been confirmed by refinements for phases withm= 6 andm= 9 in the homologous series. A few complex phenomena in real structures are taken into account by modifying the ideal model.
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Synthesis, structure determination, and twinning of two new composite compounds in the hexagonal perovskite-like sulfide family: Eu8/7TiS3 and Sr8/7TiS3. Z KRIST-CRYST MATER 2009. [DOI: 10.1524/zkri.216.10.541.20366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Eu8/7TiS3 and Sr8/7TiS3, two members in the hexagonal perovskite-like A
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TiS3 family, have been obtained as single crystals and their structure solved from twinned crystal X-ray data within the (3+1)-dimensional [(3+1)D] formalism. Eu8/7TiS3 and Sr8/7TiS3 crystallizes in the trigonal symmetry, R3̅m(00γ)0s superspace group with the following lattice parameters: Eu8/7TiS3, as
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= 11.480(5) Å, cs
= 2.9940(13) Å, q = 0.5716(2) c* and Vs
= 341.7(5) Å3. The structures were considered as commensurate (P three-dimensional (3D) spacegroup) but refined within the (3+1)D formalism (t = 0 section) to a residual factor: Eu8/7TiS3, R = 3.84% for 128 parameters and 4500 independent reflections; Sr8/7TiS3, R = 4.92% for 125 parameters and 2719 independent reflections. The two structures are isotypic and resemble that of Sr9/8TiS3. They differ from the structures of the oxide counterparts by the presence of original PO [TiS6] units, intermediate between octahedra (Oh) and trigonal prisms (TP), and replacing the TP units found in the oxides. In addition, they are different from the Sr9/8TiS3 structure by the occurrence of a particular twinning and the presence of two different [TiS3] chain types, with two consecutive PO units in one of them.
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Schön JC, Jansen M. Determination, prediction, and understanding of structures, using the energy landscapes of chemical systems – Part II. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1524/zkri.216.7.361.20362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In the past decade, new theoretical approaches have been developed to determine, predict and understand the struc-ture of chemical compounds. The central element of these methods has been the investigation of the energy landscape of chemical systems. Applications range from extended crystalline and amorphous compounds over clusters and molecular crystals to proteins. In this review, we are going to give an introduction to energy landscapes and methods for their investigation, together with a number of examples. These include structure prediction of extended and mo-lecular crystals, structure prediction and folding of proteins, structure analysis of zeolites, and structure determination of crystals from powder diffraction data.
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Carter ML, Withers RL. An electron and X-ray diffraction study of the compositely modulated barium nickel hollandite Ba
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)O16, 1.16 < x < 1.32, solid solution. Z KRIST-CRYST MATER 2009. [DOI: 10.1524/zkri.219.11.763.52427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Hollandite samples, Ba
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Ti8—
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)O16 (1.1 < x < 1.40) made by ceramic techniques, have been studied by electron and X-ray diffraction. As a result, the barium nickel hollandite system is described as a composite modulated single phase solid solution made up of mutually incommensurable (along b) framework and Ba ion sub-structures. The magnitude of the incommensurate primary modulation wave-vector when defined with respect to the framework sub-structure q = b
Ba* (measured directly from electron diffraction patterns (EDPs)) acts as a chemical ruler in that it is directly related to composition and given by
x
/2. The superspace group symmetry was found to be I′2/m(0,
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/2, 0)1. Both the framework and the Ba sub-structures have the same I2/m average structure space group symmetry. The solid solution limits for Ba
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x
Ti8—
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)O16 were found to correspond to 1.16 < x < 1.32 . These limits were found by calculating the lattice parameters of both the frame work and sub-lattice from the powder X-ray diffraction patterns.
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Schönleber A, Pattison P, Chapuis G. The (3 + 1)-dimensional superspace description of the commensurately modulated structure of p-chlorobenzamide (α-form) and its relation to the γ-form. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1524/zkri.218.7.507.20713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The room temperature structure (α-form) of the organic compound p-chlorobenzamide, C7H6ClNO, can be described as a classical three-dimensional periodic superstructure (α
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M) in (3 + 1)-dimensional superspace. The diffraction pattern is characterized by a clear difference in intensity between main and satellite reflections. All reflections can be indexed with four indices hklm in a triclinic unit cell and one modulation vector in the superspace group P1̅(αβγ) with the modulation vector q⃗ = 1/3·a⃗*. The structure undergoes a phase transition at higher temperature. In this phase transition the modulation vanishes as indicated by the disappearance of the satellite reflections. The resulting high temperature phase (γ-form) contains one molecule in the asymmetric unit, the space group is P1̅. The high temperature structure (γ) is very close to the reference structure of the modulated model at room temperature. The phase transition can therefore be understood as a loss of the modulation at high temperature.
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Caracas R, Gonze X. First-principle study of materials involved in incommensurate transitions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1524/zkri.220.5.511.65064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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We discuss the applicability of the density functional theory to the study of incommensurate crystals. After a brief introduction to these aperiodic but ordered materials we present several types of ab initio methodologies that are adequate in the context of incommensurate transitions and phases. We also give a survey of the corresponding applications, while providing two case studies: Pb2MgTeO6 and K2SeO4.
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Gourdon O, Izaola Z, Elcoro L, Petricek V, Miller GJ. Structure Determination of Two Modulated γ-Brass Structures in the Zn−Pd System through a (3 + 1)-Dimensional Space Description. Inorg Chem 2009; 48:9715-22. [DOI: 10.1021/ic900830y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Olivier Gourdon
- Jülich Center for Neutron Science−Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6032
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- Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Glienicker Strasse 100, D-14109 Berlin, Germany
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- F. Ciencia y Tecnología, Dept. Fis. Mat. Condensada, Univ. Pais Vasco, Apdo 644, E-48080 Bilbao, Spain
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- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, 180 40 Praha 8, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111
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Gray DL, Francisco MC, Kanatzidis MG. Distortion and Charge Density Wave in the Ga Square Net Coupled to the Site Occupancy Wave in YCo0.88Ga3Ge. Inorg Chem 2008; 47:7243-8. [PMID: 18652452 DOI: 10.1021/ic801080f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Danielle L. Gray
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
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- Philip Coppens
- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-3000, USA.
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Sun J, Lee S, Lin J. Four-dimensional space groups for pedestrians: composite structures. Chem Asian J 2007; 2:1204-29. [PMID: 17886829 DOI: 10.1002/asia.200700088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Higher-dimensional crystals have been studied for the last thirty years. However, most practicing chemists, materials scientists, and crystallographers continue to eschew the use of higher-dimensional crystallography in their work. Yet it has become increasingly clear in recent years that the number of higher-dimensional systems continues to grow from hundreds to as many as a thousand different compounds. Part of the problem has to do with the somewhat opaque language that has developed over the past decades to describe higher-dimensional systems. This language, while well-suited to the specialist, is too sophisticated for the neophyte wishing to enter the field, and as such can be an impediment. This Focus Review hopes to address this issue. The goal of this article is to show the regular chemist or materials scientist that knowledge of regular 3D crystallography is all that is really necessary to understand 4D crystal systems. To this end, we have couched higher-dimensional composite structures in the language of ordinary 3D crystals. In particular, we developed the principle of complementarity, which allows one to identify correctly 4D space groups solely from examination of the two 3D components that make up a typical 4D composite structure.
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- Junliang Sun
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-1301, USA.
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Müller-Bunz H, Janka O, Schleid T. Er3O2F5: Ein Erbiumoxidfluorid mitVernier-Struktur. Z Anorg Allg Chem 2007. [DOI: 10.1002/zaac.200600274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Perez-Mato JM, Elcoro L, Aroyo MI, Katzke H, Tolédano P, Izaola Z. Apparently complex high-pressure phase of gallium as a simple modulated structure. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 97:115501. [PMID: 17025897 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.97.115501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The phase of gallium GaII, with symmetry C222(1) and 104 atoms per unit cell, has been recently reported as an example of structural complexity under high pressure. It is shown here that this phase is a simple modulated distortion of an average structure of Fddd symmetry with all atoms structurally equivalent. The modulation can be described with only 4 parameters and satisfies symmetry properties described by a centrosymmetric superspace group. The structural distortion is dominated by a frozen transversal mode associated with a single irreducible representation of Fddd, with a wave vector on the line Q, at an edge of the Brillouin zone. The average structure can be related with an hcp configuration through simple sliding of hcp layers, reminiscent of the hcp-bcc Bürgers mechanism.
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- J M Perez-Mato
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco, Apdo 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
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Sun J, Li G, Li Z, You L, Lin J. Crystal Growth and Structure Determination of Oxygen-Deficient Sr6Co5O15. Inorg Chem 2006; 45:8394-402. [PMID: 16999439 DOI: 10.1021/ic060862m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Large single crystals of oxygen-deficient Sr6Co5O(15-delta) compounds, i.e., Sr6Co5O14.70 and Sr6Co4.9Ni0.1O14.36, were obtained by using K2CO3 flux in the presence of additives of transition metal oxides. The single-crystal structure determination shows that the structures of Sr6Co5O14.70 and Sr6Co4.9Ni0.1O14.36 crystallize in the space group R and can be described as one-dimensional face-sharing CoO3 polyhedral chains and Sr cation chains. Unlike the other known 2H-perovskite-related oxides in which the polyhedral chains consist of octahedra (Oh) and trigonal prism (TP), the structure of Sr6Co5O14.70 and Sr6Co4.9Ni0.1O14.36 contain Oh and intermediate polyhedra (IP) and can be attributed to a general structure formula A6A'2B3O(15-delta), which is closely related to the known A6A'B4O15 phases by shifting of a B atom and the O3 triangle along the c axis. Further study on O3 reveals that this oxygen position splits into two independent positions, corresponding to polyhedral geometry of IP and TP, respectively. Therefore, the polyhedral chain in the structure should be more precisely described as a random composite of the 4Oh + TP and 3Oh + 2IP. This model is used to interpret the magnetic properties, although not quantitatively. The 4-D structure analysis was also conducted for both Sr6Co5O14.70 and Sr6Co4.9Ni0.1O14.36 with a commensurate modulated structure in a 4-D superspace group, R3m(00gamma)0s, gamma = p/k = 3/5. By considering the same 4-D superspace group R3m(00gamma)0s but different t-phases, one can understand the structure relationship between Sr6Co5O14.70 and Sr6Rh5O15.
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- Junliang Sun
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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McMahon MI, Nelmes RJ. High-pressure structures and phase transformations in elemental metals. Chem Soc Rev 2006; 35:943-63. [PMID: 17003900 DOI: 10.1039/b517777b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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At ambient conditions the great majority of the metallic elements have simple crystal structures, such as face-centred or body-centred cubic, or hexagonal close-packed. However, when subjected to very high pressures, many of the same elements undergo phase transitions to low-symmetry and surprisingly complex structures, an increasing number of which are being found to be incommensurate. The present critical review describes the high-pressure behaviour of each of the group 1 to 16 metallic elements in detail, summarising previous work and giving the best present understanding of the structures and transitions at ambient temperature. The principal results and emerging systematics are then summarised and discussed.
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- Malcolm I McMahon
- SUPA, School of Physics and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, U.K
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Norén L, Withers RL, Schmid S, Brink FJ, Ting V. Old friends in a new light: “SnSb” revisited. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2005.10.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Liu Y, Withers RL, Whichello A, Norén L, Ting V, Brink F, Fitz Gerald JD. A combined diffraction and dielectric properties investigation of Ba3MnNb2O9 complex perovskites. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2005.08.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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A universally applicable composite modulated structure approach to ordered BaxMyTi8−yO16 hollandite-type solid solutions. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2005.03.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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McMahon MI, Nelmes RJ. Chain "melting" in the composite Rb-IV structure. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2004; 93:055501. [PMID: 15323704 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.055501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The Bragg peaks from the structure formed by the guest chains in the incommensurate composite structure of Rb-IV are all found to broaden strongly at pressures below 16.7(1) GPa. This signals a loss of the interchain correlation. At the lowest reachable pressure before the transition to Rb-III, 16.2 GPa, the correlation length is only approximately 30 A, or 4 times the interchain distance. There is also evidence of a loss of long-range order within each chain. The chains thus exhibit the onset of the characteristics of an ordered 1D liquid.
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- M I McMahon
- School of Physics and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Coronado E, Galán-Mascarós JR, Gómez-García CJ, Martínez-Ferrero E, van Smaalen S. Incommensurate Nature of the Multilayered Molecular Ferromagnetic Metals Based on Bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene and Bimetallic Oxalate Complexes. Inorg Chem 2004; 43:4808-10. [PMID: 15285651 DOI: 10.1021/ic049424a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The salt [ET]x[MnRh(ox)(3)].CH(2)Cl(2) (x = 2.526(1)) has been obtained and characterized. This paramagnetic metal is essentially isostructural to the ferromagnetic metal [ET]y[MnCr(ox)(3)].CH(2)Cl(2) (y approximately equal to 3) and provides a definite answer on the origin of the structural disorder present on such systems. As in the ferromagnetic analogue, this material shows high electrical conductivity at room temperature (13 S.cm(-1)) and metallic behavior.
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- Eugenio Coronado
- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universidad de Valencia, Dr. Moliner, 50. E46100-Burjasot, Spain.
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Shmyt’ko IM, Afonikova NS, Arnautova EA. 3D-incommensurate composite structures in (Rbx(NH4)(1 − x))2SO4 crystals. CRYSTALLOGR REP+ 2004. [DOI: 10.1134/1.1756635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Stitzer KE, El Abed A, Darriet J, zur Loye HC. Crystal Growth and Structure Determination of Barium Rhodates: Stepping Stones toward 2H−BaRhO3. J Am Chem Soc 2003; 126:856-64. [PMID: 14733561 DOI: 10.1021/ja0374271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Single crystals of two new barium rhodates were grown from a molten potassium carbonate flux. The new rhodates, Ba(11)Rh(10)O(30) and Ba(32)Rh(29)O(87), are structurally related to the 2H-hexagonal perovskite structure and are characterized by pseudo one-dimensional chains of alternating face-sharing trigonal prisms and octahedra. The structures of Ba(11)Rh(10)O(30) and Ba(32)Rh(29)O(87) were solved using the 4D superspace group approach in Jana2000. Ba(11)Rh(10)O(30), with a repeat of nine RhO(6) octahedra followed by one RhO(6) trigonal prism, contains the longest chain sequence of face-sharing octahedra known for this 2H-perovskite related family of oxides. A structural analysis of these two compounds revealed clear trends in metal-metal distances and octahedral heights not previously identified for this family of oxides. The application of these trends toward the structure of the all-octahedra-containing end member of the structural series, the hypothetical 2H-BaRhO(3), enabled a prediction of its rhodium-rhodium distance, octahedral height, and lattice parameters.
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- Katharine E Stitzer
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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Hejny C, McMahon MI. Large structural modulations in incommensurate Te-III and Se-IV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2003; 91:215502. [PMID: 14683313 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.215502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
Abstract
The high-pressure phase of tellurium, Te-III, is found to have an incommensurate monoclinic structure, superspace group I(')2/m(0q0)s0, of a type previously unknown in the elements. Te-III is stable from 4.5(2) to 29.2(7) GPa; the previously reported transition to a distinct Te-IV phase at 10.6 GPa is not observed. The incommensurate wave vector of Te-III is strongly pressure dependent and varies in a strongly nonlinear way. Se-IV is found to be isostructural with Te-III.
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- C Hejny
- School of Physics and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
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