Peroxide defect formation in zirconate perovskites
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2014
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Royal Society of Chemistry
Abstract
Atomic scale modelling suggests that excess oxygen can be accommodated in the group II perovskite zirconates by the formation of peroxide ion defects. This is unprecedented given the lack of charge compensating defects required for standard excess oxygen accommodation. The solution energy of O2 was predicted to be close to zero for BaZrO3, accommodating the peroxide ion defect more easily than in SrZrO3 or CaZrO3. This was experimentally examined by exposing SrZrO3 and BaZrO3 to hydrogen peroxide solution and then carrying out Raman spectroscopy measurements to look for a peak indicative of peroxide ions. A peak was observed at ∼1000 cm−1 in both compositions, suggesting the theoretically predicted peroxide ion is present. © 2014, The Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Atoms, Zirconates, Perovskite, Molecular ions, Peroxides, Ions
Citation
Middleburgh, S. C., Karatchevtseva, I., Kennedy, B. J., Burr, P. A., Zhang, Z., Reynolds, E., Grimes, R. W., & Lumpkin, G. R. (2014). Peroxide defect formation in zirconate perovskites. Journal of Materials Chemistry A: materials for energy and sustainability, 2(38), 15883-15888. doi:10.1039/c4ta02558j