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Unusual Phase Behavior in the Piezoelectric Perovskite System, LixNa1-xNbO3

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Date
05/08/2013
Author
Peel, Martin
Ashbrook, Sharon Elizabeth
Lightfoot, Philip
Keywords
Lead-free piezoceramics
Quantum MAS NMR
Lattice-parameters
Tilted octahedra
Lithium-niobate
Solid-solutions
NANBO3
Temperature
Diffraction
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QD Chemistry
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Abstract
The system LixNa1-xNbO3has been studied by using a combination of X-ray and neutron powder diffraction and Na-23 solid-state NMR spectroscopy. For x = 0.05 we confirm a single polar orthorhombic phase. For 0.08 ≤ x ≤ 0.20 phase mixtures of this orthorhombic phase, together with a rhombohedral phase, isostructural with the low-temperature ferroelectric polymorph of NaNbO3, are observed. The relative fractions of these two phases are shown to be critically dependent on synthetic conditions: the rhombohedral phase is favored by higher annealing temperatures and rapid cooling. We also observe that the orthorhombic phase transforms slowly to the rhombohedral phase on standing in air at ambient temperature. For 0.25 ≤ x ≤ 0.90 two rhombohedral phases coexist, one Na-rich and the other Li-rich. In this region the phase behavior is independent of reaction conditions.
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Peel , M , Ashbrook , S E & Lightfoot , P 2013 , ' Unusual Phase Behavior in the Piezoelectric Perovskite System, Li x Na 1 -x NbO 3 ' , Inorganic Chemistry , vol. 52 , no. 15 , pp. 8872-8880 . https://doi.org/10.1021/ic401061t
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Inorganic Chemistry
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/ic401061t
ISSN
0020-1669
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Journal article
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© 2013. American Chemical Society. This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Inorganic Chemistry, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic401061t
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M.D.P. was supported by an EPSRC DTA studentship. NMR facilities were supported by EPSRC under Grants EP/J501542 and EP/E041825.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5240

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