Browsing by Author "Lagerlof, KPD"

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    Accommodation of excess oxygen in fluorite dioxides
    (Elsevier, 2013-12-15) Middleburgh, SC; Lagerlof, KPD; Grimes, RW
    Accommodation of excess oxygen in CeO2, ThO2 and UO2 has been investigated using ab-initio modelling. Calculations indicate that hyperstoichiometry is preferentially accommodated by the formation of peroxide species in CeO2 and ThO2 but not in UO2, where oxygen interstitial defects are dominant. Migration of the excess oxygen defects was also studied; the peroxide ion in CeO2 and ThO2 is transported via a different mechanism, due to the formation of peroxide molecules, to the oxygen interstitial in UO2. Frenkel pair defects were investigated to understand if the interstitial component could assume a peroxide like configuration in the vicinity of the vacancy. While it was already expected that this would not be the case for UO2 since peroxide was not stable, it was also not found to be the case for CeO2 and ThO2 with the peroxide disassociating into a lattice species and a separate interstitial ion. © 2013, Elsevier B.V.
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    Accommodation of excess oxygen in group II monoxides
    (John Wiley and Sons, 2013-01-07) Middleburgh, SC; Lagerlof, KPD; Grimes, RW
    Atomic scale simulations are used to predict how excess oxygen is accommodated across the group II monoxides. In all cases, the preference is to form a peroxide ion centered at an oxygen site, rather than a single oxygen species, although the peroxide ionic orientation changes from <100> to <110> to <111> with increasing host cation radius. The enthalpy for accommodation of excess oxygen in BaO is strongly negative, whereas in SrO it is only slightly negative and in CaO and MgO the energy is positive. Interestingly, the increase in material volume due to the accommodation of oxygen (the defect volume) does not vary greatly as a function of cation radius. The vibrational frequency of peroxide ions in the group II monoxides is predicted with the aim to provide test data for future experimental observations of oxygen uptake. Finally, calculations of the dioxide structures have also been carried out. For these materials the oxygen vacancy formation energy is always positive (1.0–1.5 eV per oxygen removed) indicating that they exhibit only small oxygen defect concentrations. © 2012, The American Ceramic Society.