Copper (I) and silver (I) oxides crystallize with the same structure, and both show a wide range of negative thermal expansion (NTE): Cu2O contracts with temperature up to about 200 K and then expands, while Ag2O has a NTE up to its decomposition temperature at about 450 K. Here we report a careful temperature-dependent pair distribution function (PDF) analysis that showed that copper oxide, at about 200 K, exhibits geometric distortions of the tetrahedral units, probably related to a change in the solid angle of the polyhedra. Silver oxide, on the other hand, showed the same distortions even at the lowest temperature measured (10 K): structural refinements of the PDF confirmed the presence of local distortions (below 10 Å) at all temperatures.

Study of the negative thermal expansion of cuprite-type structures by means of temperature-dependent pair distribution function analysis : Preliminary results / M. Dapiaggi, H.J. Kim, E.S. Bozin, S.J.L. Billinge, G. Artioli. - In: JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0022-4596. - 69:9(2008), pp. 2182-2186.

Study of the negative thermal expansion of cuprite-type structures by means of temperature-dependent pair distribution function analysis : Preliminary results

M. Dapiaggi
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2008

Abstract

Copper (I) and silver (I) oxides crystallize with the same structure, and both show a wide range of negative thermal expansion (NTE): Cu2O contracts with temperature up to about 200 K and then expands, while Ag2O has a NTE up to its decomposition temperature at about 450 K. Here we report a careful temperature-dependent pair distribution function (PDF) analysis that showed that copper oxide, at about 200 K, exhibits geometric distortions of the tetrahedral units, probably related to a change in the solid angle of the polyhedra. Silver oxide, on the other hand, showed the same distortions even at the lowest temperature measured (10 K): structural refinements of the PDF confirmed the presence of local distortions (below 10 Å) at all temperatures.
A. oxides; C. Neutron scattering; D. Thermal expansion
Settore GEO/06 - Mineralogia
2008
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