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Atomic Layer Deposition of Vanadium Dioxide and a Temperature-dependent Optical Model
Published on: May 23, 2018
Untypical [VOPO4]- layer in vanadyl phosphates with variant interlayer gap of double-tiered template
Ya-Ching Yang1, Yi-Chun Lai, Joel R Salazar
1Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua, Hsinchu 30013 Taiwan, Republic of China.
Abstract:
Four new organically templated layered vanadyl(IV) phosphates, (Hcha)VOPO(4) x 0.5 H(2)O (cha = cyclohexylamine) (1), (Hchpa)VOPO(4) x 0.5 H(2)O (chpa = cycloheptylamine) (2), (Hcha)(0.5)(Hchpa)(0.5)VOPO(4) x 0.5 H(2)O (3), and (H(2)aepip)[(VOPO(4))(2)(H(2)O)] x H(2)O (aepip = N-(2-aminoethyl)piperazine) (4), have been synthesized under mild hydrothermal conditions and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, magnetic susceptibility, and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. They displayed a large interlayer gap propped up by an unprecedented double-tiered monoamine in vertical angles generating the lightest layered VPO material ever prepared and characterized. The anionic [VOPO(4)](-) sheets for all four compounds are constructed by a common secondary building unit consisting of one copper-acetate-type {(V(IV)O)(2)(mu(2)-PO(4))(4)} cluster and two vanadium polyhedra. The d(1) state was confirmed by both magnetic susceptibility studies and EPR spectra. Moreover, compounds 1 and 4 showed antiferromagnetism with T(N) at 30 K, the highest ever observed in layered vanadyl phosphates. The structural relationship, template arrangement, magnetic property, thermal stability, and correlation between interlayer gaps and densities are discussed. Compounds 1-3 crystallized in the monoclinic space group P2(1)/c (no. 14) with Z = 8, whereas compound 4 crystallized in the orthorhombic space group Pbca (no. 61) with Z = 4. Crystal data of 1, a = 16.3461(9) A, b = 14.2641(8) A, c = 9.4037(5) A, beta = 94.519(1) degrees, V = 2185.8(2) A(3); 2, a = 17.0773(5) A, b = 14.3449(4) A, c = 9.4251(3) A, beta = 93.976(1) degrees, V = 2303.3(1) A(3); 3, a = 16.6765(4) A, b = 14.2927(3) A, c = 9.4120(3) A, beta = 95.389(1) degrees, V = 2233.5(1) A(3); 4, a = 14.2517(9) A, b = 9.4012(6) A, c = 24.442(2) A, V = 3274.8(4) A(3).
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