Hempel FS, Bianchini F, Arstad B, Fjellvåg H. Effects of Ga Substitution on the Local Structure of Na
2Zn
2TeO
6.
Inorg Chem 2022;
61:13067-13076. [PMID:
35944025 PMCID:
PMC9400102 DOI:
10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01431]
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Abstract
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In the work presented here, we prepared Ga-substituted
NZTO (Na2–xZn2–xGaxTeO6, x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20) layered materials with
a soft chemical,
citric acid-based synthesis method and characterized these by means
of X-ray diffraction (XRD), 23Na and 125Te NMR,
and by density functional theory (DFT) modeling. The influence of
randomly distributed Ga cations on the 125Te NMR spectra
confirms the successful synthesis. With DFT-based linear response
computations, we show that the local distribution of Na ions in the
two neighboring interlayers influences the 125Te chemical
shift, consistent with observations. DFT modeling suggests that some
of the Na sites are rarely occupied in pure NZTO but become favorable
upon Ga substitution. There are clear indications that Ga substitution
gives an uneven distribution of Na ions in neighboring interlayers
and that the Na structure in one layer affects the adjacent layers.
The influence of randomly distributed
Ga cations on the
125Te NMR spectra confirms the successful synthesis.
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