Enhanced Negative Thermal Expansion in Lu2W3O12
โ Scribed by P.M. Forster; A. Yokochi; A.W. Sleight
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 191 KB
- Volume
- 140
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4596
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โฆ Synopsis
Negative thermal expansion in the Sc 2 W 3 O 12 family has been pushed to much more pronounced values by substituting a large cation for Sc. X-ray diffraction measurements from 127 to 627ยฐยฐC give a linear thermal expansion coefficient of ุ 6.8ุ10 ุ6 /ยฐยฐC for Lu 2 W 3 O 12 compared to ุ2.2ุ10 ุ6 /ยฐยฐC for Sc 2 W 3 O 12 . Negative thermal expansion in this family is dependent on the rocking motions of polyhedra. However, polyhedra in this structure cannot rock without changing their shape. Larger cations expand the octahedra, reducing the oxygen-oxygen repulsions within the polyhedra. This facilitates the polyhedra shape changes necessary for the rocking motions required for negative thermal expansion.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The great discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in layered cupric oxides has provided opportunities to systematically reinvestigate the electronic properties of 3d transition-metal oxides theoretically and experimentally. [1] As a result, it has become possible to quantify a set of electro
FIG. 1. Structure of Y (WO ) showing YO octahedra (white), W(1)O tetrahedra (light gray), and W(2)O tetrahedra (dark gray).
Sc 2 (WO 4 ) 3 has been found to show the highly unusual property of negative thermal expansion over a temperature range of 10 to 1073 K. Powder neutron diffraction data from 10 to 450 K shows an essentially linear decrease in cell volume as a function of temperature. The intrinsic linear coefficien