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Chemical Synthesis of Porous Barium Titanate Thin Film and Thermal Stabilization of Ferroelectric Phase by Porosity-Induced Strain
Published on: March 27, 2018
In Situ High-Temperature Raman Spectroscopy and Simulations for Correlating Structure Evolution with Viscosity in the
Meiqin Sheng1, Jinglin You1, Xiang Xia1
1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
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The quantitative distribution of various clusters in molten binary K2O·nTiO2 (n = 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6) was investigated by in situ high-temperature Raman spectroscopy and quantum chemical (QC) ab initio calculation. A series of titanium-oxygen model clusters were constructed, and their symmetric stretching vibrational bands and the corresponding Raman scattering cross-sections of titanium nonbridging oxygen were calculated. The quantitative analysis of various species in molten binary potassium titanate was analyzed by Voigt function deconvolution. The results showed that when n ≥ 4, the structure of melt primarily consists of [TiO4] and [TiO5] species, with a small amount of [TiO6] octahedra. As the K2O content increases (n < 4), [TiO4] tetrahedra become the prominent species in the melt. The correlation between viscosity and the distribution of various species at varying temperatures was investigated. The findings indicate that viscosity decreases as temperature and K2O content increase.
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