Redetermination of beta-Al2TiO5 obtained by melt casting
Journal article, 2005

beta-Al2TiO5 (dialuminium titanium pentaoxide), grown by rapid cooling of a melt of equimolar amounts of Al2O3 and TiO2, adopts the same overall structure as that crystallized by more conventional methods, such as sintering. Nevertheless, reinvestigation of this structure has resulted in an improved structure model with previously unknown site preferences determined. Ti prefers the slightly more regular 4c octahedral site, leaving more room for Al at the 8f octahedral site. The formula has been determined as ([4c])[Al-0.626 ((7)) Ti-0.374 ((7))]([8f])- [Al-0.687 ((3)) Ti-0.313 ((3))](2)O-5.

Al2TiO5

X-ray Diffraction

Structure Determination

Author

Stefan Norberg

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry

Nobuo Ishizawa

Stefan Hoffmann

M Yoshimura

Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online

1600-5368 (ISSN)

Vol. 61 8 i160-i162

Subject Categories

Inorganic Chemistry

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10/8/2017