• Beyond the Ionic Radii: A Multifaceted Approach to Understand Differences between the Structures of LnNbO4 and LnTaO4 Fergusonites 

      Mullens, Bryce; Saura-Múzquiz, Matilde; Marlton, Frederick; Avdeev, Maxim; Brand, Helen E. A.; Mondal, S.; Vaitheeswaran, G.; Kennedy, Brendan James
      Published 2023
      Synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction methods have been used to obtain accurate structures of the lanthanoid tantalates, LnTaO4, at room temperature. Three different structures are observed, depending on the size of the Ln ...
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    • Cation and lone pair order-disorder in the polymorphic mixed metal bismuth scheelite Bi3FeMo2O12 

      Saura-Múzquiz, Matilde; Marlton, Frederick; Mullens, Bryce; Liu, Jiatu; Maynard-Casely, Helen Elizabeth; Avdeev, Maxim; Blom, Douglas A.; Vogt, Thomas; Kennedy, Brendan James
      Published 2022
      The Bi3FeMo2O12 system is examined as a rare example of a transition metal oxide which, upon heating, undergoes a symmetry lowering and 2:1 ordering of the transition metal cations. The compound was synthesised in the ...
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    • Experimental and Computational Insights into the Anomalous Thermal Expansion of NH¬4ReO4 

      Saura-Múzquiz, Matilde; Mullens, Bryce; Avdeev, Maxim; Jharapla, PK.; Vaitheeswaran, G.; Gupta, M. K.; Mittal, R.; Kennedy, Brendan James
      Published 2022
      The temperature dependence of the structure and the ground state properties of scheelite type NH4ReO4 have been studied using neutron powder diffraction (NPD) and Density Functional Theory (DFT), respectively. Despite the ...
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    • Long-Range A-Site Cation Disorder in NaA(MO4)2 (M = Mo, W) Double Scheelite Oxides 

      Mullens, Bryce; Nicholas, Maria; Marlton, Frederick; Brand, Helen E. A.; Gu, Qinfen; Maynard-Casely, Helen Elizabeth; Kennedy, Brendan James
      Published 2023
      Synchrotron X-ray and neutron powder diffraction methods have been used to obtain accurate long-range average structures of some double scheelite compounds of the type NaA(BO4)2 (A = La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Lu, and Bi; B = Mo, W) ...
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    • Neutron diffraction study of the tetragonal – monoclinic phase transition in NdNbO4 and NdTaO4 

      Saura-Múzquiz, Matilde; Mullens, Bryce; Maynard-Casely, Helen Elizabeth; Kennedy, Brendan James
      Published 2021
      Phase transition and high-temperature properties of NdNbO4 and NdTaO4 were studied in situ using powder neutron diffraction methods. Both oxides undergo a reversible phase transition from a monoclinic I2/a phase at low ...
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    • Structural And Magnetic Properties Of Some Vacancy Ordered Osmium Halide Perovskites 

      Saura-Múzquiz, Matilde; Avdeev, Maxim; Brand, Helen E. A.; Kennedy, Brendan James
      Published 22
      The structures and magnetic properties of the Os4+ (5d4) halides K2OsCl6, K2OsBr6, Na2OsBr6 and Na2OsBr6.6H2O are described. K2OsCl6 and K2OsBr6 have a cubic vacancy-ordered double perovskites structure but undergo different ...
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    • Structure and electronic properties of a mu-oxo ruthenium bromide 

      Saura-Múzquiz, Matilde; Mullens, Bryce; Brand, Helen E. A.; Kennedy, Brendan James
      Published 2022
      The crystal structure of potassium μ-oxo-bis[pentabromoruthenate] K4Ru2OBr10, determined from synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction, is described. Each Ru atom is surrounded by five Br atoms and one O atom. Magnetic ...
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    • Tetrahedral displacive disorder in the scheelite-type oxide RbReO4 

      Marlton, Frederick; Mullens, Bryce; Chater, Philip A.; Kennedy, Brendan James
      Published 2022
      Oxides exhibiting the scheelite-type structure are an important class of functional materials with notable applications in photocatalysis, luminescence and ionic conductivity. Like all materials, understanding their atomic ...
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    • Understanding the re-entrant phase transition in a non-magnetic scheelite 

      Kennedy, Brendan James; Saura-Múzquiz, Matilde; Marlton, Frederick; Mullens, Bryce; Manjón-Sanz, Alicia María; Neuefeind, Joerg C.; Everett, Michelle; Brand, Helen E. A.; Mondald, S.; Vaitheeswaran, G.
      Published 2022
      The stereochemical activity of lone pair electrons plays a central role in determining the structural and electronic properties of both chemically simple materials such as H2O, as well as more complex condensed phases such ...
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