钛酸铅和钛酸钡振动性质及铁电相变的密度泛函理论研究

采用密度泛函赝势的方法, 研究了不同晶相的钛酸铅和钛酸钡的振动模式. 没有发现钛酸铅存在低温相变的证据, 而钛酸钡则存在四方-正交和正交-三角铁电相变. 振动频率随四方应变的变化关系表明, 随着四方应变的增大, 软模的频率增大, 在某一个临界点, 不稳定的软模转变为稳定的振模. 由于钛酸铅具有较大的四方应变, 使得其能够在四方相稳定下来, 而钛酸钡较小的四方应变是其仍能够发生低温铁电相变的一个重要原因.     

亚微米级四方相钛酸钡低温固相法制备及晶型控制

以八水合氢氧化钡和α-钛酸为原料,在相对低的焙烧温度下,制备出近似球形、亚微米级的钛酸钡。通过XRD、SEM、Raman和FTIR等手段对钛酸钡样品进行表征,样品具有高结晶度,颗粒均一性良好。晶型转变的初步探究表明,立方相为主的钛酸钡可以在400℃发生晶相转变,成为以四方相为主的钛酸钡。     

Self consistent modified extended Hückel (SC-MEH) calculations on heavy metal systems. I. Platinum(II) tetragonal planar complexes with and without relativistic effects

The Self Consistent Modified Extended Hückel molecular orbital method had been applied to several square planar complexes of platinum (II). Calculations including both the limited 5d, 6s, 6p and extended 5s, 5p, 5d, 6s, 6p starting bases for platinum were made. It is shown that in PtCl ₄ ^2– both the nuclear quadrupole moment and minimum total energy vs. bond distance are calculated to be in good agreement with experiment, only with the extended platinum AO basis.Specific inclusion of relativistic parameters via a pseudo-relativistic approximation are shown to have a significant effect on the energy molecular energy levels, however no meaningful rationalization can be made without the simultaneous inclusion of ligand field parameters as well.Supported in part by a grant made available through the Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans. Use of the facilities of the Computer Research Center of the University of New Orleans is gratefully acknowledged.     

双核配合物[Cu2(TS)(H2O)]·CH3OH的自组装制备和晶体结构

The binuclear complex [Cu₂(TS)(H₂O)]·CH₃OH, where TS denotes the binucleating ligand derived from the schiff base N,N′-bis(3-carboxylsalidene)trimethylenediamine, was obtained from the self-decomposition of mononuclear complex Na₂CuTS·H₂O. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system, space group P2₁/c. The lattice parameters are a=11.935(2)?,b=15.667(3)?,c=11.621(2)?,β=111.60(3)°,V=2020.2(7)?³, Z=4 with R=0.0467. The structure is made of binuclear units, in which two copper atoms are bridged by two phenolic oxygen atoms. The “inside”copper atom is coordinated by two nitrogens, two phenolic oxygens in a planar coordi-nation site, the copper atom deviates from the mean plane by 0.47?. The “outside” copper atom is five coordinated by two phenolic oxygen atoms、two equatorial carboxyl oxygen atoms and one axial water oxygen atom in a distorted tetragonal cone site, the copper atom is pulled out of the equatorial plane by 0.46?.     

Texture of zirconia obtained by forced hydrolysis of ZrOCl2 solutions

The structure and surface properties of ZrO₂ strongly depend on its preparation. In the present work the impact of prolonged aging at basic conditions (pH = 9, T = 100°C, t = 48 h), on the phase composition and textural properties, obtained by calcination of the precipitate, was investigated using several techniques conjointly (DTA/TG, DSC, XRD, porosimetry). The thermal effects accompanying the ZrO₂·xH₂O gel formation, the coalescence of the particles and crystallization were evaluated and discussed in terms of the structural differences between the aged and non-aged samples. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Young＇s modulus surface and Poisson＇s ratio curve for tetragonal crystals

This paper gives the general expressions for the compliance s′ijkl, Young＇s modulus E（hkl） and Poisson＇s ratio v（hkl, θ） along arbitrary loading direction [hkl] for tetragonal crystals. The representation surface for which the length of the radius vector in the [hkl] direction equals E（hkl） and representation curve for which the length of the radius vector with angle θ deviated from the reference directions [001^-], [100], [001^-], [101^-] and [112^-] equals v（100, θ）, v（001, θ）, v（110,θ）, v（101,θ） and v（111, θ） respectively, are constructed for nine tetragonal crystals （ammonium dihydrogen arsenate, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, barium titanate, indium, nickel sulfate, potassium dihydrogen arsenate, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, tin and zircon）. The characteristics of them are analysed in detail.     

Assessing the Importance of Cation Size in the Tetragonal-Cubic Phase Transition in Lithium-Garnet Electrolytes**

Lithium garnets are promising solid-state electrolytes for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. These materials have high ionic conductivity, a wide electrochemical window and stability with Li metal. However, lithium garnets have a maximum limit of seven lithium atoms per formula unit (e.g., La₃Zr₂Li₇O₁₂), before the system transitions from a cubic to a tetragonal phase with poor ionic mobility. This arises from full occupation of the Li sites. Hence, the most conductive lithium garnets have Li between 6–6.55 Li per formula unit, which maintains the cubic symmetry and the disordered Li sub-lattice. The tetragonal phase, however, forms the highly conducting cubic phase at higher temperatures, thought to arise from increased cell volume and entropic stabilisation permitting Li disorder. However, little work has been undertaken in understanding the controlling factors of this phase transition, which could enable enhanced dopant strategies to maintain room temperature cubic garnet at higher Li contents. Here, a series of nine tetragonal garnets were synthesised and analysed by variable temperature XRD to understand the dependence of site substitution on the phase transition temperature. Interestingly the octahedral site cation radius was identified as the key parameter for the transition temperature with larger or smaller dopants altering the transition temperature noticeably. A site substitution was, however, found to make little difference irrespective of significant changes to cell volume.     

Study of high pressure behavior and elastic properties of praseodymium monochalcogenides and monopnictides

The structural and elastic properties of praseodymium monochalcogenides (PrX: X = S, Se, Te) and monopnictides (PrY: Y = P, As, Sb, Bi) with NaCl-type structure have been investigated by using an interionic potential theory with necessary modification to include the effect of Coulomb screening due to the delocalized f-electrons of rare earth ion. The calculations are done at ambient as well as at high pressure. The structure of the high pressure phase of PrX compounds is CsCl-type while all the PrY compounds have been found to undergo from their initial NaCl-type structure to high pressure body centered tetragonal (BCT) structure, which can be seen as the distorted CsCl-type with c/a ratio ≈ 0.82–0.87. The calculated transition pressures are in good agreement with the experimental results. The elastic properties like second-order elastic constants for PrX, Y compounds are calculated for the first time. The nature of the bonding is also predicted by calculating the distance between the ions with the increasing pressure.     

Optical characterization and crystal structure of the novel bronzetype CaxBa1‐xNb2O6 (x = 0.28; CBN‐28)

Calcium barium niobate (CBN), also like strontium barium niobate (SBN), belongs to the materials family of partially filled tetragonal tungsten bronzes, which show relaxor‐type ferroelectric phase transitions and large electro‐optic effects. For the first time, it was possible to grow large single crystals of Ca_0.25Ba_0.75Nb₂O₆ (CBN‐25) and CBN‐28 by using different growing techniques. The successful single crystal growth allowed to investigate several physical properties of the novel phase. Herein, we report on measurements of differential thermal analysis (DTA), wavelength dispersion of the refractive indices, temperature dependence of the birefringence and light absorption. Additionally, results of the single crystal X‐ray structure analysis are presented.