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A density-functional theory approach to the existence and stability of molybdenum and tungsten sesquioxide polymorphs

  • Nils Becker , Christoph Reimann , Dominik Weber , Tobias Lüdtke , Martin Lerch , Thomas Bredow und Richard Dronskowski EMAIL logo
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Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
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Abstract

The sesquioxides of molybdenum and tungsten have been reported as thin films or on surfaces as early as 1971, but the preparation of bulk materials and their crystal structures are still unknown up to the present day. We present a systematic ab initio approach to their possible syntheses and crystal structures applying complementary methods and basis-set types. For both compounds, the corundum structure is the most stable and does not display any imaginary frequencies. Calculations targeted at a high-pressure synthesis starting from the stable oxides and metals predict a reaction pressure of 15 GPa for Mo2O3 and over 60 GPa for W2O3.

Keywords: DFT; high-pressure; molybdenum; sesquioxide; tungsten

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the DFG within the priority program SPP 1415. We thank the computing center at RWTH Aachen University for providing large amounts of CPU time.

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Supplemental Material:

The online version of this article (DOI: 10.1515/zkri-2016-1960) offers supplementary material, available to authorized users.

Received: 2016-5-25
Accepted: 2016-8-4
Published Online: 2016-8-26
Published in Print: 2017-2-1

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  2. Graphical Synopsis
  3. Editorial
  4. Synthesis and characterization of metastable transition metal oxides and oxide nitrides
  5. Control of organic polymorph formation: crystallization pathways in acoustically levitated droplets
  6. Thermal annealing of natural, radiation-damaged pyrochlore
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  17. Investigations on the growth of bismuth oxido clusters and the nucleation to give metastable bismuth oxide modifications
  18. Divalent metal phosphonates – new aspects for syntheses, in situ characterization and structure solution
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  22. Snapshots of calcium carbonate formation – a step by step analysis
https://doi.org/10.1515/zkri-2016-1960
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
DFT; high-pressure; molybdenum; sesquioxide; tungsten

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Graphical Synopsis
  3. Editorial
  4. Synthesis and characterization of metastable transition metal oxides and oxide nitrides
  5. Control of organic polymorph formation: crystallization pathways in acoustically levitated droplets
  6. Thermal annealing of natural, radiation-damaged pyrochlore
  7. The formation of CdS quantum dots and Au nanoparticles
  8. Crystalline chalcogenido metalates – synthetic approaches for materials synthesis and transformation
  9. Fundamental theoretical and practical investigations of the polymorph formation of small amphiphilic molecules, their co-crystals and salts
  10. A density-functional theory approach to the existence and stability of molybdenum and tungsten sesquioxide polymorphs
  11. The ZIF system zinc(II) 4,5-dichoroimidazolate: theoretical and experimental investigations of the polymorphism and crystallization mechanisms
  12. Element allotropes and polyanion compounds of pnicogenes and chalcogenes: stability, mechanisms of formation, controlled synthesis and characterization
  13. Structure and ion dynamics of mechanosynthesized oxides and fluorides
  14. Scaled-up solvothermal synthesis of nanosized metastable indium oxyhydroxide (InOOH) and corundum-type rhombohedral indium oxide (rh-In2O3)
  15. Development and application of novel NMR methodologies for the in situ characterization of crystallization processes of metastable crystalline materials
  16. Phase formation and stability in TiOx and ZrOx thin films: Extremely sub-stoichiometric functional oxides for electrical and TCO applications
  17. Investigations on the growth of bismuth oxido clusters and the nucleation to give metastable bismuth oxide modifications
  18. Divalent metal phosphonates – new aspects for syntheses, in situ characterization and structure solution
  19. Type-I silicon clathrates containing lithium
  20. Experimental and theoretical investigation of the chromium–vanadium–antimony system
  21. Synthesis and crystal structure of three new bismuth(III) arylsulfonatocarboxylates
  22. Snapshots of calcium carbonate formation – a step by step analysis
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