The Definitive Sodium Niobate Phase Diagram?

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NaNbO3 has long been regarded as the 'most complex' perovskite known, with at least seven different phases reported as a function of T, at least two of which have evaded all previous attempts at structure solution. In the light of our own recent work exploting the complementarity of neutron and X-ray diffraction and solid state NMR, we now have a much better understanding of the issues involved in this apparent complexity. In fact, most existing samples of NaNbO3 at RT occur as a mixture of two similar but distinct phases, in space groups Pbcm and P21ma. We propose that some of the earlier studies have been impeded by this phase co-existence (without realising it!). Now we are able to synthesise a guaranteed phase pure sample of the Pbcm polymorph we are in a position to map out in full and correct detail the naNbO3 phase diagram. All earlier anomalies will be clarified and rectified.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24081705
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24081705
Provenance
Creator Mr Martin Peel; Professor Phil Lightfoot; Dr Richard Goff
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-03-28T03:28:48Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-10-07T08:04:24Z