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ChemInform Abstract: Identification of an Unconventional Zinc Coordination Site in Anhydrous ZnxV2O5 Aerogels from X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy.

✍ Scribed by Marco Giorgetti; Stefano Passerini; William H. Smyrl; Mario Berrettoni


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Weight
33 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
0931-7597

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✦ Synopsis


Identification of an Unconventional Zinc Coordination Site in Anhydrous ZnxV 2 O 5 Aerogels from X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy. -V 2 O 5 aerogel is studied as an insertion host for cations. EXAFS analysis of ZnxV 2 O 5 (x = 0.14, 0.52, 0.72, 1.47) shows that the Zn 2+ ions are 4-fold coordinated by almost coplanar oxygen atoms. With increasing zinc insertion level, the first-shell Zn-O bond length shortens and the EXAFS Debye-Waller factor increases, suggesting a decrease of the local geometrical order of the first shell.

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