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Thermal Expansion of Alkaline-Earth Borates

Version 1 : Received: 27 May 2024 / Approved: 28 May 2024 / Online: 28 May 2024 (11:46:48 CEST)

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Bubnova, R.; Yukhno, V.; Krzhizhanovskaya, M.; Filatov, S. Thermal Expansion of Alkaline-Earth Borates. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances 2019, 75, e274–e274, doi:10.1107/s2053273319092829. Bubnova, R.; Yukhno, V.; Krzhizhanovskaya, M.; Filatov, S. Thermal Expansion of Alkaline-Earth Borates. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances 2019, 75, e274–e274, doi:10.1107/s2053273319092829.

Abstract

Thermal expansion of four alkaline-earth borates, namely Ca3B2O6 (0D), CaB2O4 (1D), Sr3B14O24 (2D) and CaB4O7 (3D), have been studied by in situ high-temperature powder X-ray diffraction (HTXRD). Strong anisotropy of thermal expansion is observed for the structures of Ca3B2O6 (0D) and CaB2O4 (1D) built up from BO3 triangles only: these borates exhibit the maximal expansion perpendicular to the BO3 plane, i.e. along the direction of weaker bonding in the crystal structure. Layered Sr3B14O24 (2D) and framework CaB4O7 (3D) built up from various B-O groups expand less anisotropically. Thermal properties of the studied compounds compared to the other alka-line-earth borates are summarized depending on the selected structural characteristics like anion dimensionality, residual charge per one polyhedron (BO3 BO4), cationic size, and structural com-plexity. For the first time these dependencies were established as an average for both types of polyhedra (triangle and tetrahedron) occurring in the same structure at the same time. The most common trends were identified for : (i) Melting temperature decreases as the dimensionality of the borate polyanion, and more precisely, as the residual charge per one polyhedron (triangle or tetrahedron) decreases; (ii) volumetric expansion decreases while the degree of anisotropy in-creases weakly when the residual charge decreases; (iii)both trends (i) and (ii) are most steady within borates built by the triangles only, while the borates built by both triangles and tetrahedra show a larger scatter in values.

Keywords

borates; thermal expansion; crystal structure; high-temperature; Х-ray diffraction

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Physical Chemistry

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