Oxygen defect structure in higher order Ruddlesden-Popper nickelate phases

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Ruddlesden Popper phases where n = 2 or 3 e.g. La4Ni3O10 are receiving increasing interest as potetnial fuel cell cathodes. However the structural and oxygen non-stoichiometry of these phases at elevated temperature is not well understood in comparison to the La2NiO4 phase. Additionally the n=2 and 3 phases are likely to have oxygen vacancies and hence the in-situ structural phase evolution will differ from the interstitrial containing n=1 phase. In this work we aim to probe the defect structure of the n=2 and 3 phases over the temperature range of RT - 800C focussing on the evolution of the occupancy of the crystallographic oxygen positions, correlating these data with previous work on the Ni redox, conductivity and oxygen diffusion behaviour. A full Rietveld and MEM analysis of these oxides will be undertaken.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42592358
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42592358
Provenance
Creator Dr Florent Tonus; Dr Ryan Bayliss; Professor Stephen Skinner
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 2013-10-18T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-22T23:00:00Z