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Synthesis and Exfoliation of Discotic Zirconium Phosphates to Obtain Colloidal Liquid Crystals
Published on: May 25, 2016
Synthesis and crystal structure of NZP-type thorium-zirconium phosphate
Albina I Orlova1, Valeriy Yu Volgutov, Germán R Castro
1Department of Chemistry, Nizhni Novgorod State University, pr. Gagarina 23, 603950 Nizhni Novgorod, Russia.
Abstract:
Microcrystals of Th(1/4)Zr(2)(PO(4))(3) were synthesized by thermal treatment (900 degrees C) of the material obtained using sol-gel technology (including organic complex formation and etherification). Their structure [hexagonal, P3c, a = b = 8.7311(4) A, c = 23.309(2) A] includes the three-dimensional [Zr(2)(PO(4))(3)](-) NASICON-type network and extraframework 6-fold-coordinated thorium(IV) cations.
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