Strain-induced phase and oxygen-vacancy stability in ionic interfaces from first-principles calculations
Abstract
Understanding interfacial chemistry is becoming crucial in materials design for heterointerfaces. Using density functional theory, we elucidate the effect of strained interfaces on phase and oxygen-vacancy stability for CeO2 | ZrO2, ThO2 | ZrO2 and CeO2 | ThO2 interfaces. The calculations show that ZrO2 transforms from cubic fluorite to the orthorhombic columbite under tensile strain providing evidence of a previous experimental speculation of an unrecognized ZrO2 phase. We also show that oxygen vacancies could be preferably stabilized on either side of the interface by manipulating strain. We predict that they are stable in tensile-strain, and unstable in compressivestrained materials.
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1185425
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry. C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 51; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-7447
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Strain; Interfaces; zirconia; ceria; thoria; density functional theory; phase stability
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Aidhy, Dilpuneet S., Liu, Bin, Zhang, Yanwen, and Weber, William J. Strain-induced phase and oxygen-vacancy stability in ionic interfaces from first-principles calculations. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1021/jp507876m.
Aidhy, Dilpuneet S., Liu, Bin, Zhang, Yanwen, & Weber, William J. Strain-induced phase and oxygen-vacancy stability in ionic interfaces from first-principles calculations. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp507876m
Aidhy, Dilpuneet S., Liu, Bin, Zhang, Yanwen, and Weber, William J. Wed .
"Strain-induced phase and oxygen-vacancy stability in ionic interfaces from first-principles calculations". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp507876m. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1185425.
@article{osti_1185425,
title = {Strain-induced phase and oxygen-vacancy stability in ionic interfaces from first-principles calculations},
author = {Aidhy, Dilpuneet S. and Liu, Bin and Zhang, Yanwen and Weber, William J.},
abstractNote = {Understanding interfacial chemistry is becoming crucial in materials design for heterointerfaces. Using density functional theory, we elucidate the effect of strained interfaces on phase and oxygen-vacancy stability for CeO2 | ZrO2, ThO2 | ZrO2 and CeO2 | ThO2 interfaces. The calculations show that ZrO2 transforms from cubic fluorite to the orthorhombic columbite under tensile strain providing evidence of a previous experimental speculation of an unrecognized ZrO2 phase. We also show that oxygen vacancies could be preferably stabilized on either side of the interface by manipulating strain. We predict that they are stable in tensile-strain, and unstable in compressivestrained materials.},
doi = {10.1021/jp507876m},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. C},
number = 51,
volume = 118,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}
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