Response of the local structure of complex oxides to mechanical action

authored by
Vladimir Šepelák, Ingo Bergmann, Sylvio Indris, Armin Feldhoff, Paul Heitjans, Klaus Dieter Becker
Abstract

Owing to the structural flexibility of complex oxides, providing a wide range of physical and chemical behavior, these materials have been considered as a convenient model system for the investigation of mechanically induced processes and of the structure-property relationships in complex ionic systems. In this work, it is demonstrated that spectroscopic methods (nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) can provide valuable insight into the mechanochemically induced changes in local structure such as the mechanically induced cation redistribution, the formation of the canted spin arrangement, the modification of the nearest-neighbor cation configuration and the deformation of the polyhedron geometry in spinel aluminates and ferrites. Quantitative information is obtained on the particle size dependent ionic and spin configurations in nanosized spinel oxides prepared by mechanochemical processing of the corresponding bulk materials.

Organisation(s)
Center for Solid State Chemistry and New Materials (ZFM)
Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry
External Organisation(s)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Volkswagen AG
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Type
Article
Journal
Annales de Chimie: Science des Materiaux
Volume
34
Pages
377-390
No. of pages
14
ISSN
0151-9107
Publication date
11.2009
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Materials Chemistry
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.3166/acsm.34.377-390 (Access: Closed)