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On the nature of the phase transitions of aluminosilicate perrhenate sodalite

Hilke Petersen, Lars Robben, Thorsten M. Gesing

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials 235 (2020): 6-7

https://doi.org/10.1515/zkri-2020-0027

The temperature-dependent structure-property relationships of the aluminosilicate perrhenate sodalite |Na8(ReO4)2|[AlSiO4]6 (ReO4-SOD) were analysed via powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), Raman spectroscopy and heat capacity measurements. ReO4-SOD shows two phase transitions in the investigated temperature range (13 K < T < 1480 K). The first one at 218.6(1) K is correlated to the transition of dynamically ordered P¯43n (> 218.6(1 K) to a statically disordered (<218.6(1) K) SOD template in P¯43n. The loss of the dynamics of the template anion during cooling causes an increase of disorder, indicated by an unusual intensity decrease of the 011-reflection and an increase of the Re-O2 bond length with decreasing temperature. Additionally, Raman spectroscopy shows a distortion of the ReO4 anion. Upon heating the thermal expansion of the sodalite cage originated in the tilt-mechanism causes the second phase transition at 442(1) K resulting in a symmetry-increase from P¯43n to Pm¯3n, the structure with the sodalites full framework expansion. Noteworthy is the high decomposition temperature of 1320(10) K.

On the nature of the phase transitions of aluminosilicate perrhenate sodalite pic
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