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Title: Toward tailorable surfaces: A combined theoretical and experimental study of lanthanum niobate layered perovskites

Abstract

A comprehensive theoretical investigation of the MLaNb{sub 2}O{sub 7} (M = H, Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs) series of ion-exchangeable layered perovskite is presented. These perovskites are in particular interesting in view of their potential applications as inorganic supports for the design of new hybrid inorganic-organic proton conductors. In particular, their structural and electronic properties have been investigated by periodic calculations in the framework of Density Functional Theory, using different exchange-correlation functionals. A general very good agreement with the available experimental (XRD, NPD, and EXAFS) data has been found. The structure of the protonated HLaNb{sub 2}O{sub 7} form has also been further clarified and a new tetragonal space group is proposed for this compound, better reproducing the experimental cell parameters and yielding to a more realistic picture of the system. The electronic investigation highlighted that all the compounds considered are very similar to each other and that the interaction between interlayer cations and perovskite slabs is purely ionic, except for the proton that is, instead, covalently bound.

Authors:
; ;  [1];  [2];  [2]
  1. Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze ed. 17, I-90128 Palermo (Italy)
  2. Institut de Recherche de Chimie de Paris CNRS Chimie ParisTech, 11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris (France)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22308782
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Chemical Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 141; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL METHOD; FINE STRUCTURE; HYBRIDIZATION; INTERACTIONS; LANTHANUM; NIOBATES; PEROVSKITE; PROTONS; SPACE GROUPS; SURFACES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY

Citation Formats

Di Tommaso, Stefania, E-mail: stefania.ditommaso@unipa.it, E-mail: frederic.labat@chimie-paristech.fr, Giannici, Francesco, Mossuto Marculescu, Adriana, Martorana, Antonino, Adamo, Carlo, Institut Universitaire de France, 103 Boulevard Saint Michel, F-75005 Paris, and Labat, Frédèric. Toward tailorable surfaces: A combined theoretical and experimental study of lanthanum niobate layered perovskites. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4886338.
Di Tommaso, Stefania, E-mail: stefania.ditommaso@unipa.it, E-mail: frederic.labat@chimie-paristech.fr, Giannici, Francesco, Mossuto Marculescu, Adriana, Martorana, Antonino, Adamo, Carlo, Institut Universitaire de France, 103 Boulevard Saint Michel, F-75005 Paris, & Labat, Frédèric. Toward tailorable surfaces: A combined theoretical and experimental study of lanthanum niobate layered perovskites. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4886338
Di Tommaso, Stefania, E-mail: stefania.ditommaso@unipa.it, E-mail: frederic.labat@chimie-paristech.fr, Giannici, Francesco, Mossuto Marculescu, Adriana, Martorana, Antonino, Adamo, Carlo, Institut Universitaire de France, 103 Boulevard Saint Michel, F-75005 Paris, and Labat, Frédèric. 2014. "Toward tailorable surfaces: A combined theoretical and experimental study of lanthanum niobate layered perovskites". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4886338.
@article{osti_22308782,
title = {Toward tailorable surfaces: A combined theoretical and experimental study of lanthanum niobate layered perovskites},
author = {Di Tommaso, Stefania, E-mail: stefania.ditommaso@unipa.it, E-mail: frederic.labat@chimie-paristech.fr and Giannici, Francesco and Mossuto Marculescu, Adriana and Martorana, Antonino and Adamo, Carlo and Institut Universitaire de France, 103 Boulevard Saint Michel, F-75005 Paris and Labat, Frédèric},
abstractNote = {A comprehensive theoretical investigation of the MLaNb{sub 2}O{sub 7} (M = H, Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs) series of ion-exchangeable layered perovskite is presented. These perovskites are in particular interesting in view of their potential applications as inorganic supports for the design of new hybrid inorganic-organic proton conductors. In particular, their structural and electronic properties have been investigated by periodic calculations in the framework of Density Functional Theory, using different exchange-correlation functionals. A general very good agreement with the available experimental (XRD, NPD, and EXAFS) data has been found. The structure of the protonated HLaNb{sub 2}O{sub 7} form has also been further clarified and a new tetragonal space group is proposed for this compound, better reproducing the experimental cell parameters and yielding to a more realistic picture of the system. The electronic investigation highlighted that all the compounds considered are very similar to each other and that the interaction between interlayer cations and perovskite slabs is purely ionic, except for the proton that is, instead, covalently bound.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4886338},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22308782}, journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
issn = {0021-9606},
number = 2,
volume = 141,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}