Structure of Polaronic Centers in Proton-Intercalated AWO4 Scheelite-Type Tungstates
Georgijs Bakradze, Edmund Welter, Alexei Kuzmin
TL;DR
This study investigates how proton intercalation affects the structure of scheelite-type tungstates, revealing the formation of polaronic centers that alter the material's properties.
Contribution
The paper provides new structural insights into polaronic centers formed by proton intercalation in scheelite-type tungstates using advanced spectroscopy and simulations.
Findings
Proton intercalation in AWO4 leads to the reduction of W6+ to W5+, forming polaronic centers.
W5+ ions are displaced from the center of [W5+O4] tetrahedra, confirmed by X-ray absorption and simulations.
The process is linked to a dark blue-purple coloration and structural relaxation around W5+.
Abstract
The studies of polaronic centers in a homologous series of scheelite-type compounds AWO4 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) were performed using the W L3-edge and Sr K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy combined with the reverse Monte Carlo simulations, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and first-principles calculations. Protonated scheelites HxAWO4 were produced using acid electrolytes in a one-step route at ambient conditions. The underlying mechanism behind this phenomenon can be ascribed to the intercalation of H+ into the crystal structure of tungstate, effectively resulting in the reduction of W6+ to W5+, i.e., the formation of polaronic centers, and giving rise to a characteristic dark blue-purple color. The emergence of the W5+ was confirmed by XPS experiments. The relaxation of the local atomic structure around the W5+ polaronic center was determined from the analysis of the extended X-ray…
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TopicsLuminescence Properties of Advanced Materials · Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials · Microwave Dielectric Ceramics Synthesis