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The Hume–Rothery Compound Mn8Ga27.4Zn13.6: Separated Zn13‐Clusters Interspersed in a Primitive Cubic Host Lattice |
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| Authors: | Ulrich Hussermann Per Viklund Christer Svensson Sten Eriksson Pedro Berastegui Sven Lidin |
| Abstract: | Separated Zn 13 cluster entities unexpectedly occur in the solid‐state structure of Mn8Ga27.4Zn13.6 (the central building block is shown). They correspond to centered cuboctahedra, that is, small volumes of face‐centered cubic metal. The intriguing segregation of Ga and Zn atoms in Mn8Ga27.4Zn13.6 was verfied by Rietveld refinement of neutron powder diffraction data. |
| Keywords: | Bond theory Clusters Intermetallic phases Structure elucidation Zinc |