An arsenate with the α-CrPO4structure type, NaCa1–xNi3–2xAl2x(AsO4)3(x= 0.23): crystal structure, charge-distribution and bond-valence-sum analyses
- 6 October 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry
- Vol. 73 (11), 896-904
- https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053229617013213
Abstract
Since the discovery of electrochemically active LiFePO4, materials with tunnel and layered structures built up of transition metals and polyanions have become the subject of much research. A new quaternary arsenate, sodium calcium trinickel aluminium triarsenate, NaCa1–xNi3–2xAl2x(AsO4)3(x= 0.23), was synthesized using the flux method in air at 1023 K and its crystal structure was determined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) data. This material was also characterized by qualitative energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) analysis and IR spectroscopy. The crystal structure belongs to the α-CrPO4type with the space groupImma. The structure is described as a three-dimensional framework built up of corner-edge-sharing NiO6, (Ni,Al)O6and AsO4polyhedra, with channels running along the [100] and [010] directions, in which the sodium and calcium cations are located. The proposed structural model has been validated by bond-valence-sum (BVS) and charge-distribution (CHARDI) tools. The sodium ionic conduction pathways in the anionic framework were investigated by means of the bond-valence site energy (BVSE) model, which predicted that the studied material will probably be a very poor Na+ion conductor (bond-valence activation energy ∼7 eV).Keywords
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