Vanadium and molybdenum disorder in M2.5VMoO8 (M = Mg, Mn, and Zn) determined with neutron powder diffraction and phase formation studies of Mg2.5+xV1+2xMo1-2xO8

Xiandong Wang, Jason D. Pless, Douglas A.Vander Griend, Peter C. Stair, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier*, Zhongbo Hu, James D. Jorgensen

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Abstract

Disorder between the vanadium and molybdenum sites was investigated using neutron diffraction on polycrystalline samples of M2.5VMoO 8 (M=Mg2+, Mn2+, Zn2+) and the distribution of V5+ and Mo6+ among the tetrahedral sites was determined to be nearly statistical. The refined structures for all three polycrystalline samples corroborate those of corresponding single crystals determined previously with X-ray single crystal diffraction. Studies directed at the formation of Mg2.5+xV1+2xMo1-2xO 8 (x=0, ±0.02 and ±0.04) demonstrate that the phase begins to form at an appreciable rate at 1173K, which is approximately 250K below its melting point.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)87-94
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Alloys and Compounds
Volume379
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 6 2004

Funding

The authors gratefully acknowledge the National Science Foundation, Solid State Chemistry (Award nos. DMR-9412971 and DMR-9727516) and from the EMSI program of the National Science Foundation and at the Northwestern University Institute for Environmental Catalysis (Grant No. 9810378) for support of this work. The authors made use of the Central Facilities supported by the MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation (Grant DMR-0076097) at the Materials Research Center of Northwestern University. The work at the Intense Pulse Neutron Source (IPNS) at Argonne National Lab was supported by DOE W-31-109-ENG-38.

Keywords

  • Cation vacancies
  • Molybdate
  • Neutron diffraction
  • Vanadate

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Metals and Alloys
  • Materials Chemistry

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