Defect crystal structure of new TiO(OH)2 hydroxide and related lithium salt Li2TiO3.
Crystal structures of TiO(OH)(2) and Li(2)TiO(3) have been studied in detail and refined using X-ray powder diffraction data. Both compounds possess a high concentration of defects in the structure. The crystal structure of the Li(2)TiO(3) salt obtained at 700 degrees C reveals stacking faults of LiTi(2) metal layers, which leads to the appearance of short-range order in three possible space groups: C2/c, C2/m, P3(1)12. The possibility to stabilise this imperfect state increases the mobility of the Li(+) ions in the structure and allows the complete exchange of lithium by hydrogen in acid water solutions with formation of TiO(OH)(2). The crystal structure of TiO(OH)(2) belongs to the layered double hydroxide structure type with the 3R(1) sequence of oxygen layers and can be described as a stacking of charge-neutral metal oxyhydroxide slabs [(OH)(2)OTi(2)O(OH)(2)]. TiO(OH)(2) is the first layered double hydroxide structure formed by a cation with oxidation state +4 only.
Tarakina
Nadezda V
NV
Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pervomayskaya 91, 620990 Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Neder
Reinhard B
RB
Denisova
Tatyana A
TA
Maksimova
Lidiya G
LG
Baklanova
Yana V
YV
Tyutyunnik
Alexander P
AP
Zubkov
Vladimir G
VG