Study of cation disorder, oxygen vacancy ordering and proton sites in La2-xNdxCe2O7

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On the basis of X-ray diffraction the oxygen deficient La2-xNdxCe2O7 series displays a transition from disordered fluorite to the C-type superstructure in which the cations remain statistically distributed around two distinct oxygen sites. The transition is accompanied by a decrease in the oxide ion conductivity. Work by the applicants has established that La2Ce2O7 also displays significant proton conductivity and preliminary neutron data revealed a strongly modulated background indicating that the local structure is more complex than a randomly disordered fluorite. We here request 4 days on POLARIS to study the structural transition in La2-xNdxCe2O7 using the total scattering-RMC methodology to resolve local cation and/or oxygen vacancy ordering. We also aim to determine proton/deuteron sites in selected samples by collecting low T data to help identify proton migration pathways.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089899
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089899
Provenance
Creator Dr Steve Hull; Miss Liv-Elisif Kalland; Professor Sten Eriksson; Dr Stefan Norberg; Dr Christopher Knee; Dr Reidar Haugsrud; Mr Vasileios Besikiotis
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-11-26T09:19:33Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-12-03T09:30:10Z