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Gebresenbut GH, Pay Gómez C, Eriksson L, Häussermann U. Chemical speciation in Gd−Cd−M (M=Zn, Au) quasicrystal approximants. Z Anorg Allg Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/zaac.202000414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Girma H. Gebresenbut
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström Laboratory Uppsala University 751 21 Uppsala Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry-Ångström Laboratory Uppsala University 751 21 Uppsala Sweden
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- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry Stockholm University S-10691 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry Stockholm University S-10691 Stockholm Sweden
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Gebresenbut G, Shiino T, Eklöf D, Joshi DC, Denoel F, Mathieu R, Häussermann U, Pay Gómez C. Atomic-Scale Tuning of Tsai-Type Clusters in RE-Au-Si Systems (RE = Gd, Tb, Ho). Inorg Chem 2020; 59:9152-9162. [PMID: 32525660 PMCID: PMC7467681 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Tsai-type quasicrystals
and approximants are distinguished by a cluster unit made up of four
concentric polyhedral shells that surround a tetrahedron at the center.
Here we show that for Tsai-type 1/1 approximants in the RE–Au–Si
systems (RE = Gd, Tb, Ho) the central tetrahedron of the Tsai clusters
can be systematically replaced by a single RE atom. The modified cluster
is herein termed a “pseudo-Tsai cluster” and represents,
in contrast to the conventional Tsai cluster, a structural motif without
internal symmetry breaking. For each system, single-phase samples
of both pseudo-Tsai and Tsai-type 1/1 approximants were independently
prepared as millimeter-sized, faceted, single crystals using the self-flux
synthesis method. The full replacement of tetrahedral moieties by
RE atoms in the pseudo-Tsai 1/1 approximants was ascertained by a
combination of single-crystal and powder diffraction studies, as well
as energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) analyses with a scanning
electron microscope (SEM). Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
studies revealed distinctly higher decomposition temperatures, by
5–35 K, for the pseudo-Tsai phases. Furthermore, the magnetic
properties of pseudo-Tsai phases are profoundly and consistently different
from the Tsai counterparts. The onset temperatures of magnetic ordering
(Tmag) are lowered in the pseudo-Tsai
phases by ∼30% from 24 to 17 K, 11.5 to 8 K, and 5 to 3.5 K
in the Gd–Au–Si, Tb–Au–Si, and Ho–Au–Si
systems, respectively. In addition, the Tb–Au–Si and
Ho–Au–Si systems exhibit some qualitative changes in
their magnetic ordering, indicating decisive changes in the magnetic
state/structure by a moment-bearing atom at the cluster center. Formation conditions of Tsai (IT) and
pseudo-Tsai (CC) phases have been established, and their atomic structures
and magnetic properties have been investigated for the RE−Au−Si
systems (RE = Gd, Tb, Ho). Following a schematic pseudobinary (Au79Si21 versus RE) phase diagram, millimeter-sized
single crystals were obtained for both structure types using the self-flux
synthesis method. Variations in atomic structure, thermal behaviors,
and magnetic properties were identified using SCXRD, DSC, and magnetic
property measurements, respectively.
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- Girma Gebresenbut
- Department of chemistry, Ångström laboratory, Uppsala University, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of materials science and engineering, Uppsala University, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of materials and environmental chemistry, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of materials science and engineering, Uppsala University, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of materials science and engineering, Uppsala University, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of materials science and engineering, Uppsala University, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of materials and environmental chemistry, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of chemistry, Ångström laboratory, Uppsala University, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
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Yamada T, Kurihara T, Prots Y, Sato A, Matsushita Y, Grin Y, Tsai AP. Synthesis and Atomic Structure of the Yb-Ga-Au 1/1 Quasicrystal Approximant. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:6320-6327. [PMID: 30977363 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The Yb-Ga-Au 1/1 quasicrystal approximant (AP) composition ranges from Yb14.0Ga20.6Au65.4 to Yb14.8Ga46.3Au38.9, and single crystals of the 1/1 AP having the composition Yb13.8Ga26.1Au60.1 were obtained by the self-flux technique. X-ray structural analysis demonstrated that the atomic structure [space group Im3; a = 14.6889(9) Å] can be described by the body-centered packing of Tsai-type rhombic triacontahedron (RTH) clusters. The positional disorder in these clusters, interpreted as the average of an orientationally disordered tetrahedron and triangle, results in positional disorder in the outer shells. The elemental distributions and positions of mixtures of Au and Ga atoms in the RTH clusters correspond to those in the isostructural Yb15Al36Au49 1/1 AP.
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- Tsunetomo Yamada
- Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science , Tokyo University of Science , Katsushika-ku , Tokyo 125-8585 , Japan
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM) , Tohoku University , Sendai-shi 980-8577 , Miyagi , Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe , 01187 Dresden , Germany
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- Research Network and Facility Services Division , National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , 1-1 Namiki , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-0044 , Japan
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- Research Network and Facility Services Division , National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , 1-1 Namiki , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-0044 , Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe , 01187 Dresden , Germany
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM) , Tohoku University , Sendai-shi 980-8577 , Miyagi , Japan
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Complex cubic metallides AM
~6 (A=Ca, Sr; M=Zn, Cd, Hg). Synthesis, crystal chemistry and chemical bonding. Z KRIST-CRYST MATER 2017. [DOI: 10.1515/zkri-2016-2029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In a systematic synthetic, crystallographic and bond theoretical study, the stability ranges as well as the distribution of the isoelectronic late d-block elements Zn, Cd and Hg (M) in the polyanions of the YCd6-type phases (Ca/Sr)Cd6 have been investigated. Starting from Ca(Cd/Hg)6, 12−30% of the M atoms can be substituted by Zn, which gradually occupies the center of the empty cubes. In all ternary compounds, smaller/less electronegative Zn/Cd atoms occupy the disordered tetrahedra explaining the lack of the YCd6-type for pure mercurides. Along the section SrCd6-SrHg6, the ordered Eu4Cd25-type is formed (Sr4Cd16.1Hg8.9: cF1392, Fd3̅, a=3191.93(5) pm, R1=0.0404). Besides, two new complex cubic Ca phases appear at increased Zn proportion: Ca2Zn5.1Cd5.8, which exhibits a nearly complete site preference of Zn and Cd, crystallizes in the rare cubic Mg2Zn11-type structure (cP39−δ, Pm3̅, a=918.1(1) pm, R1=0.0349). In the Ca–Hg system, an increased Zn proportion yielded the new compound CaZn1.31Hg3.69 (cF480, F4̅3m, a=2145.43(9) pm, R1=0.0572), with a complex cubic structure closely related to Ba20Hg103. All structures, which are commonly described using nested polyhedra around high-symmetric sites, are alternatively described in accordance with the calculated electron densities and charge distribution: building blocks are face-sharing [M
4] tetrahedra (star polyhedra such as TS, IS, OS), each with a cage-critical point in its center, and [M
8] cubes (deformed TS), which are either empty, distorted or filled. The M element distribution in the anion is determined by size criteria and the difference in electronegativity, which induces a preferred formation of heteroatomic polar bonds.
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Kilduff BJ, Fredrickson DC. Chemical Pressure-Driven Incommensurability in CaPd5: Clues to High-Pressure Chemistry Offered by Complex Intermetallics. Inorg Chem 2016; 55:6781-93. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Brandon J. Kilduff
- 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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Yannello VJ, Fredrickson DC. Generality of the 18-n Rule: Intermetallic Structural Chemistry Explained through Isolobal Analogies to Transition Metal Complexes. Inorg Chem 2015; 54:11385-98. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Vincent J. Yannello
- 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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Reichmann TL, Ipser H. Reinvestigation of the Cd-Gd phase diagram. JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS 2014; 617:292-301. [PMID: 25544803 PMCID: PMC4235775 DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.07.211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2014] [Revised: 07/28/2014] [Accepted: 07/30/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The complete Cd-Gd equilibrium phase diagram was investigated by a combination of powder-XRD, SEM and DTA. All previously reported phases, i.e., CdGd, Cd2Gd, Cd3Gd, Cd45Gd11, Cd58Gd13, and Cd6Gd, could be confirmed. In addition, a new intermetallic compound with a stoichiometric composition corresponding to "Cd8Gd" was found to exist. It was obtained that "Cd8Gd" decomposes peritectically at 465 °C. Homogeneity ranges of all intermetallic compounds were determined at distinct temperatures. In addition, the maximum solubilities of Cd in the low- and high-temperature modifications of Gd were determined precisely as 4.6 and 22.6 at.%, respectively. All invariant reaction temperatures (with the exception of the formation of Cd58Gd13) as well as liquidus temperatures were determined, most probably, Cd58Gd13 is formed in a peritectoid reaction from Cd45Gd11 and Cd6Gd at a temperature below 700 °C.
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Berns VM, Fredrickson DC. Structural Plasticity: How Intermetallics Deform Themselves in Response to Chemical Pressure, and the Complex Structures That Result. Inorg Chem 2014; 53:10762-71. [DOI: 10.1021/ic5020412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Veronica M. Berns
- 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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Skołyszewska-Kühberger B, Reichmann TL, Ipser H. Phase equilibria in the neodymium-cadmium binary system. JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS 2014; 606:242-248. [PMID: 25197164 PMCID: PMC4064934 DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2014] [Revised: 03/28/2014] [Accepted: 04/01/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The equilibrium phase diagram of the neodymium-cadmium system has been established by thermal, metallographic and X-ray analysis based on a study of 70 alloys. The system contains three congruently melting intermetallic compounds, i.e. NdCd (1040 °C), NdCd2 (995 °C), Nd11Cd45 (855 °C), and four incongruently melting compounds NdCd3 (860 °C), Nd13Cd58 (740 °C), NdCd6 (655 °C) and NdCd11 (520 °C). Four eutectic reactions are found in this binary system, i.e. at ∼25 at.% Cd and 770 °C, at 58 at.% Cd and 955 °C, at 79 at.% Cd and 850 °C, and very close to pure Cd at 318 °C, as well as one eutectoid reaction at ∼15 at.% Cd and 500 °C. The solid solubility of Nd in Cd is negligible. Dilatometric curves were recorded for three Nd-Cd compositions up to 4 at.% Cd, to accurately determine phase transitions between the solid solutions of Cd in the low- and high-temperature modification of Nd.
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Gulo F, Samal SL, Corbett JD. Substantial Cd–Cd Bonding in Ca6PtCd11: A Condensed Intermetallic Phase Built of Pentagonal Cd7 and Rectangular Cd4/2Pt Pyramids. Inorg Chem 2013; 52:10112-8. [DOI: 10.1021/ic401455c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Fakhili Gulo
- Ames Laboratory, DOE and Department
of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames,
Iowa 50010, United States
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- Ames Laboratory, DOE and Department
of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames,
Iowa 50010, United States
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- Ames Laboratory, DOE and Department
of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames,
Iowa 50010, United States
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Nishimoto K, Sato T, Tamura R. Low-temperature superstructures of a series of Cd6M (M = Ca, Y, Sr, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu) crystalline approximants. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2013; 25:235403. [PMID: 23685563 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/25/23/235403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The low-temperature (LT) superstructure and the phase transition temperature have been investigated for a series of Cd6M crystalline approximants by transmission electron microscopy as well as electrical resistivity measurements. Except for M = Lu, Cd6M is found to undergo a phase transition to a monoclinic phase at a low temperature and the transition temperature (Tc) scales well with the size of the M atom. For M = Ca, Y, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er and Tm the LT superstructure is explained by a √2a × a × √2a lattice with the space group C2/c, and for M = Sr and Yb a √2a × 2a × √2a monoclinic lattice with P2/m. On the other hand, no phase transition is observed for M = Lu, indicating that a Cd4 tetrahedron at the cluster center remains disordered down to the lowest temperature, i.e. 16 K. It is shown that the volume inside the Cd20 dodecahedron plays a crucial role in the occurrence of the phase transition, and long-term aging in particular promotes the phase transition for late rare-earth elements such as Ho, Er and Tm, suggesting that the transition is sensitive to and is even hindered by disorder such as atomic vacancies. The absence of the transition for M = Lu is attributed to the highest activation energy for the transition due to the smallest volume inside the Cd20 dodecahedron.
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- Kazue Nishimoto
- Department of Materials Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Niijuku, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan
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Demchyna M, Belan B, Manyako M, Pietraszko A, Kalychak Y. Phase diagrams of the Tb–Ag–In and Dy–Ag–In systems at 870K. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2012.04.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Pankova AA, Ilyushin GD, Blatov VA. Nanoclusters based on pentagondodecahedra with shells in the form of D32, D42, and D50 deltahedra in crystal structures of intermetallic compounds. CRYSTALLOGR REP+ 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s1063774511040171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Blatov VA, Ilyushin GD, Proserpio DM. New Types of Multishell Nanoclusters with a Frank–Kasper Polyhedral Core in Intermetallics. Inorg Chem 2011; 50:5714-24. [DOI: 10.1021/ic2005024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Institute of Crystallography of RAS, Leninskii Prospekt 59, Moscow 117333, Russia
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Chimica Strutturale e Stereochimica Inorganica (DCSSI), Via G. Venezian 21, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Lin Q, Corbett JD. Development of an Icosahedral Quasicrystal and Two Approximants in the Ca−Au−Sn System: Syntheses and Structural Analyses. Inorg Chem 2010; 49:10436-44. [DOI: 10.1021/ic101356n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Qisheng Lin
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010
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Lin Q, Corbett JD. M3(Au,Ge)19 and M3.25(Au,Ge)18 (M = Ca, Yb): Distinctive Phase Separations Driven by Configurational Disorder in Cubic YCd6-Type Derivatives. Inorg Chem 2010; 49:4570-7. [DOI: 10.1021/ic100118q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Qisheng Lin
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010
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Bodak O, Demchenko P, Seropegin Y, Fedorchuk AO. Cubic structure types of rare-earth intermetallics and related compounds. Z KRIST-CRYST MATER 2009. [DOI: 10.1524/zkri.2006.221.5-7.482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Cubic structure types of rare-earth intermetallic and related compounds are reviewed and their structural similarities are discussed. The description of the structural relations is based on the ordered substitution or inclusion of atoms or atomic groups starting from the structures of four “aristotypes”: diamond, Cu, CsCl and W. Structural similarities between some types are illustrated by family trees of crystallographic group-subgroup relations.
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Lin Q, Corbett JD. Approximant Phases and an Icosahedral Quasicrystal in the Ca−Au−Ga System: The Influence of Size of Gallium versus Indium. Inorg Chem 2008; 47:7651-9. [DOI: 10.1021/ic800694j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Qisheng Lin
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010
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Berger R, Lee S, Johnson J, Nebgen B, So ACY. Laves Phases,γ-Brass, and 2×2×2 Superstructures: A New Class of Quasicrystal Approximants and the Suggestion of a New Quasicrystal. Chemistry 2008; 14:6627-39. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.200800336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Piao SY, Palatinus L, Lidin S. All the Disorder Mechanisms in the 13:58 Phases Come Together. Out of the Modulated Confusion Rises the Remarkable Phase Ce12.60Cd58.68(2). Inorg Chem 2008; 47:1079-86. [PMID: 18173266 DOI: 10.1021/ic701962b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Shu Ying Piao
- Inorganic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Inorganic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Inorganic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Chapter 3 New group of icosahedral quasicrystals. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s1570-002x(08)80018-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Lin Q, Corbett JD. Development of the Ca−Au−In Icosahedral Quasicrystal and Two Crystalline Approximants: Practice via Pseudogap Electronic Tuning. J Am Chem Soc 2007; 129:6789-97. [PMID: 17480074 DOI: 10.1021/ja069143x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Electronic tuning and syntheses to gain the icosahedral quasicrystal (i-QC) (Ca14.1(2)Au44.2(8)In41.7(7), e/a = 1.98) and two approximant crystals (ACs) are reported. The tuning was derived from Na2Au6In5, another cubic Mg2Zn11-type structure, for which the Fermi level (e/a = 1.77) should tune to a calculated pseudogap (e/a = 2.02) under a rigid band assumption. The 1/1 AC, Ca3Au12.2(1)In6.3(2) (e/a = 1.73), crystallizes in space group Im, with a = 15.152(2) A, Z = 8, and the 2/1 AC, Ca12.6(1)Au37.0(2)In39.6(6) (e/a = 2.01), in Pa, with a = 24.632(3) A , Z = 8. Both have substantially fixed compositions according to lattice dimensions. Structure analyses reveal that both ACs contain triacontahedral clusters as the basic building blocks at the body-centered and primitive cubic unit cell levels, respectively. Densities-of-states (DOS) analyses for the 1/1 AC structure reveal a pseudogap at e/a = 2.00, close to the point at which the i-QC was predicted and experimentally tuned. Phase relationships of the ACs and the i-QC are reported according to DTA, XRD, and temperature-dependent XRD measurements. The QC is thermodynamically metastable below approximately 500 degrees C.
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- Qisheng Lin
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, USA
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Lin Q, Corbett JD. New building blocks in the 2/1 crystalline approximant of a Bergman-type icosahedral quasicrystal. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:13589-94. [PMID: 16950873 PMCID: PMC1564238 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0605954103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The refined x-ray crystal structure of the phase Mg(27)Al(10.7(2))Zn(47.3(2)) (Pa3) establishes it as the new 2/1 Bergman-type approximant of the icosahedral quasicrystal. The primitive cubic lattice consists of condensed triacontahedral and novel prolate rhombohedral (PR) clusters. Each triacontahedron encapsulates the traditional, multiply endohedral Bergman-type clusters, and each PR encapsulates an Al(2) dimer. This phase exhibits the same long-range order as recently established for the Tsai-type Sc-Mg-Zn 2/1 approximant crystal, with substantial geometric and atomic distribution differences between the two only in the short range orders. This common feature suggests that Bergman- and Tsai-type quasicrystals may be more similar than earlier conceived. Factors germane to the formation of, and the differences between, Bergman- vs. Tsai-type 1/1 and 2/1 approximate structures are considered, including notably different distributions of the more electropositive elements.
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- Qisheng Lin
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
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- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
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Lin Q, Corbett JD. The 1/1 and 2/1 Approximants in the Sc−Mg−Zn Quasicrystal System: Triacontahedral Clusters as Fundamental Building Blocks. J Am Chem Soc 2006; 128:13268-73. [PMID: 17017808 DOI: 10.1021/ja063897u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Single-crystal structures are reported for Sc(3)Mg(0.18(1))Zn(17.73(3)), the 1/1 approximant crystal (AC), and Sc(11.18(9))Mg(2.5(1))Zn(73.6(2)), the 2/1 AC, in the corresponding icosahedral quasicrystal (i-QC) system. The 1/1 AC crystallizes in space group Im, a = 13.863(2) A, Z = 8, and the 2/1 AC, in Pa, a = 22.412 (2) A, Z = 8. The latter, which is valuable in pointing the way to the QC structure, is the best ordered and refined 2/1 example to date. The fundamental building blocks in both ACs are triacontahedral clusters centered by smaller multiply endohedral Tsai-type arrays; the former are condensed through body-centered-cubic packing in the 1/1 and primitive cubic packing in the 2/1 AC. Novel prolate rhombohedra centered by Sc-Sc dimers are also generated between triacontahedra in the 2/1 AC.
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- Qisheng Lin
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011, USA
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Lin Q, Corbett JD. Synthesis and Structure of Five Sc3CuyZn18-y-Type Compositions (0 ≤ y ≤ ∼2.2), 1/1 Crystalline Approximants of a New Icosahedral Quasicrystal. Direct Example of Tuning on the Basis of Size Effects and Hume−Rothery Concepts. Inorg Chem 2004; 43:1912-9. [PMID: 15018510 DOI: 10.1021/ic030265p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The newly reported icosahedral quasicrystalline phase approximately Sc(3)Cu(2.1)Zn(12.9) was approached through four synthetic, structural, and EDX analyses of the range of approximants formed by systematic substitutions of 0-4 Zn by Cu in the reported Sc(3)Zn(17) as well as for the corrected Sc(3)Zn(18) (ScZn(6)) composition. Structures of high yield products of the 0, 1, 2, 3 Cu atom steps all refined as isotypic Sc(3)Cu(y)Zn(18-y) phases (Im(-)3, Z = 8, a = 13.8311(5) to 13.7528(5) A for 0 < or = y < or =2.2), basically isostructural with RCd(6) phases known for many rare-earth elements. The present phases all exhibit the novel feature of disordered zinc tetrahedra in the center of four concentric polyhedral clusters: pentagonal dodecahedron (Zn/Cu), icosahedron (Sc), icosidodecahedron (Zn), and triacontahedron (Zn). The Cu tuning process reduces both the average electron count per atom (e/a) to 2.04 and the average atom size until major amounts of the zinc-poorer quasicrystal separate along with the present normal crystalline phase near four added Cu. The Cu is an important neighbor to the disordered Zn atoms. The approximant structure repeatedly exhibits components with pseudo-icosahedral symmetry.
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- Qisheng Lin
- Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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Kalychak YM, Zaremba VI, Pöttgen R, Lukachuk M, Hoffmann RD. Rare earth–transition metal–indides. HANDBOOK ON THE PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF RARE EARTHS 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1273(04)34001-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Ishii Y, Fujiwara T. Hybridization mechanism for cohesion of Cd-based quasicrystals. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2001; 87:206408. [PMID: 11690501 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.206408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The cohesion mechanism of cubic approximant crystals in newly discovered binary quasicrystals, Cd(6)M ( M = Yb or Ca), is studied theoretically. It is found that stabilization due to alloying is obtained if M is an element with low-lying unoccupied d states. This leads to the conclusion that the cohesion of Cd-based compounds is due to hybridization of the d states of Yb and Ca with a wide sp band. The Hume-Rothery mechanism does not play a principal role in the stability because neither a distinct pseudogap nor stabilization due to alloying is obtained for isostructural Cd-Mg. In addition to the electronic origin, matching of the atomic size is very crucial for quasicrystal formation in Cd-based compounds.
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- Y Ishii
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, Kasuga, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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de Vries J, Thiel R, Buschow K. 151Eu isomer shifts and charge transfer in Eu-base intermetallic compounds. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/0378-4363(83)90132-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The crystal structure of tetraethylammonium trichlorooxo(1,1,1-trifluoro-4- thenoyl-2,4-butanedionato)niobate(V). Inorganica Chim Acta 1979. [DOI: 10.1016/s0020-1693(00)89458-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Boyer M, Jeannin Y, Rocchiccioli-deltcheff C, Thouvenot R. X-RAY AND VIBRATIONAL STUDIES OF 1:1 ADDUCT OF NITROMETHANE AND TITANIUM TETRACHLORIDE. J COORD CHEM 1978. [DOI: 10.1080/00958977808079914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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A study of the crystal and molecular structure of BeCl2(NCCH3)2 by x-ray diffraction and MO calculations. Inorganica Chim Acta 1975. [DOI: 10.1016/s0020-1693(00)85755-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Taylor J, Calvert L, Despault J, Gabe E, Murray J. The rare-earth arsenides: Non-stoichiometry in the rocksalt phases. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1974. [DOI: 10.1016/0022-5088(74)90038-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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