Low Temperature Ordering in ZrMn2+xD3 Superstochiometric Deuterides

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ZrMn2H3 is a Laves Phase intermetallic hydride with interesting materials properties - unlike most Laves Phases, the parent alloy ZrMn2 is not a line phase but has a wide range of inhomogeneity. ZrMnx maintains the C14 (P63/mmc) structure with only small variations in lattice parameters from 1.8<x<3.8; other materials properties, such as hydriding thermodynamics and magnetism are, however, highly sensitive to Mn content. It has been shown that below 230 K, stoichiometric ZrMn2D3 undergoes an unidentified order-disorder transition; it is probable that ZrMn2+xD3 will also undergo a low T transition which may differ from that of the stoichiometric compound, and may even vary with the manganese content. We propose to investigate the low T structures of ZrMn2D3 and a series of ZrMn2+xD3 compounds to investigate temperature-induced phase transitions and unambiguously identify D atom positions.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24077462
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24077462
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Creator Dr Simon Johnson; Dr Martin Jones; Professor Bill David
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-09-30T09:45:21Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-10-05T07:01:40Z