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Title: Room temperature chemical oxidation of delafossite-type oxides

Journal Article · · Journal of Solid State Chemistry; (United States)
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  1. Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide du CNRS, Talence (France)
  2. Universite Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech (Morocco)

Examination of the delafossite-type structure of CuLaO[sub 2] and CuYO[sub 2] suggests that there is room enough to accommodate intercalated oxide ions and the charge compensation resulting simply from the oxidation of an equivalent amount of Cu[sup +] into Cu[sup 2+]. Reaction with hypohalites in an aqueous solution leads to color change. Evidence of the formation of Cu[sup 2+] is given by TGA, iodometric titration, and magnetic (static and EPR) measurements. The obtained La and Y compounds seem to behave in a different way: Whereas CuLaO[sub 2+x] appears as a single phase, CuYO[sub 2+x] corresponds to a two-phase mixture, with respectively low and high x values, the latter being isostructural with the thermally oxidized compound recently reported. Comparison is stressed between the oxides obtained at higher temperatures.

OSTI ID:
6922964
Journal Information:
Journal of Solid State Chemistry; (United States), Vol. 111:1; ISSN 0022-4596
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English