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Title: Ambient and High Pressure CuNiSb2: Metal-Ordered and Metal-Disordered NiAs-Type Derivative Pnictides

Abstract

The mineral Zlatogorite, CuNiSb2, was synthesized in the laboratory for the first time by annealing elements at ambient pressure (CuNiSb2-AP). Rietveld refinement of synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction data indicates that CuNiSb2-AP crystallizes in the NiAs-derived structure (P3m1, #164) with Cu and Ni ordering. The structure consists of alternate NiSb6 and CuSb6 octahedral layers via face-sharing. The formation of such structure instead of metal disordered NiAs-type structure (P63/mmc, #194) is validated by the lower energy of the ordered phase by first-principle calculations. Interatomic crystal orbital Hamilton population, electron localization function, and charge density analysis reveal strong Ni-Sb, Cu-Sb, and Cu-Ni bonding and long weak Sb-Sb interactions in CuNiSb2-AP. The magnetic measurement indicates that CuNiSb2-AP is Pauli paramagnetic. First-principle calculations and experimental electrical resistivity measurements reveal that CuNiSb2-AP is a metal. The low Seebeck coefficient and large thermal conductivity suggest that CuNiSb2 is not a potential thermoelectric material. Single crystals were grown by chemical vapor transport. The high pressure sample (CuNiSb2-8 GPa) was prepared by pressing CuNiSb2-AP at 700 °C and 8 GPa. However, the structures of single crystal and CuNiSb2-8 GPa are best fit with a disordered metal structure in the P3m1 space group, corroborated by transmission electron microscopy.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [2]; ORCiD logo [2];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6];  [7];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [8]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA (United States)
  2. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
  3. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
  4. Univ. of Antwerp (Belgium). EMAT
  5. Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
  7. Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY (United States). Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
  8. George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA (United States); Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); COS-Seed Award
OSTI Identifier:
1760277
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; FOA-0001276; DMR-170938; 181283
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Inorganic Chemistry
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 59; Journal Issue: 19; Journal ID: ISSN 0020-1669
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Metals; electronic structure; crystal structure; space group; chemical structure

Citation Formats

Skaggs, Callista M., Kang, Chang-Jong, Perez, Christopher J., Hadermann, Joke, Emge, Thomas J., Frank, Corey E., Pak, Chongin, Lapidus, Saul H., Walker, David, Kotliar, Gabriel, Kauzlarich, Susan M., Tan, Xiaoyan, and Greenblatt, Martha. Ambient and High Pressure CuNiSb2: Metal-Ordered and Metal-Disordered NiAs-Type Derivative Pnictides. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01848.
Skaggs, Callista M., Kang, Chang-Jong, Perez, Christopher J., Hadermann, Joke, Emge, Thomas J., Frank, Corey E., Pak, Chongin, Lapidus, Saul H., Walker, David, Kotliar, Gabriel, Kauzlarich, Susan M., Tan, Xiaoyan, & Greenblatt, Martha. Ambient and High Pressure CuNiSb2: Metal-Ordered and Metal-Disordered NiAs-Type Derivative Pnictides. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01848
Skaggs, Callista M., Kang, Chang-Jong, Perez, Christopher J., Hadermann, Joke, Emge, Thomas J., Frank, Corey E., Pak, Chongin, Lapidus, Saul H., Walker, David, Kotliar, Gabriel, Kauzlarich, Susan M., Tan, Xiaoyan, and Greenblatt, Martha. Sun . "Ambient and High Pressure CuNiSb2: Metal-Ordered and Metal-Disordered NiAs-Type Derivative Pnictides". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01848. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1760277.
@article{osti_1760277,
title = {Ambient and High Pressure CuNiSb2: Metal-Ordered and Metal-Disordered NiAs-Type Derivative Pnictides},
author = {Skaggs, Callista M. and Kang, Chang-Jong and Perez, Christopher J. and Hadermann, Joke and Emge, Thomas J. and Frank, Corey E. and Pak, Chongin and Lapidus, Saul H. and Walker, David and Kotliar, Gabriel and Kauzlarich, Susan M. and Tan, Xiaoyan and Greenblatt, Martha},
abstractNote = {The mineral Zlatogorite, CuNiSb2, was synthesized in the laboratory for the first time by annealing elements at ambient pressure (CuNiSb2-AP). Rietveld refinement of synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction data indicates that CuNiSb2-AP crystallizes in the NiAs-derived structure (P3m1, #164) with Cu and Ni ordering. The structure consists of alternate NiSb6 and CuSb6 octahedral layers via face-sharing. The formation of such structure instead of metal disordered NiAs-type structure (P63/mmc, #194) is validated by the lower energy of the ordered phase by first-principle calculations. Interatomic crystal orbital Hamilton population, electron localization function, and charge density analysis reveal strong Ni-Sb, Cu-Sb, and Cu-Ni bonding and long weak Sb-Sb interactions in CuNiSb2-AP. The magnetic measurement indicates that CuNiSb2-AP is Pauli paramagnetic. First-principle calculations and experimental electrical resistivity measurements reveal that CuNiSb2-AP is a metal. The low Seebeck coefficient and large thermal conductivity suggest that CuNiSb2 is not a potential thermoelectric material. Single crystals were grown by chemical vapor transport. The high pressure sample (CuNiSb2-8 GPa) was prepared by pressing CuNiSb2-AP at 700 °C and 8 GPa. However, the structures of single crystal and CuNiSb2-8 GPa are best fit with a disordered metal structure in the P3m1 space group, corroborated by transmission electron microscopy.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01848},
journal = {Inorganic Chemistry},
number = 19,
volume = 59,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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