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Improved understanding of atomic ordering in Y4SixAI2-xO9-xNx materials using a combined solid-state NMR and computational approach

Improved understanding of atomic ordering in Y4SixAI2-xO9-xNx materials using a combined solid-state NMR and computational approach
Improved understanding of atomic ordering in Y4SixAI2-xO9-xNx materials using a combined solid-state NMR and computational approach
Ceramics based around silicon aluminum oxynitrides are of both fundamental structural chemistry and technological interest. Certain oxynitride crystal structures allow very significant compositional variation through extensive Si/N exchange for Al/O, which implies a degree of atomic ordering. In this study, solid-state 29Si MAS NMR and variable field 1D and 2D 27Al MAS NMR measurements are combined with density functional theory calculations of both the structural and NMR interaction parameters for various points across the Y4Si2O7N2–Y4Al2O9 compositional range. This series provides numerous possibilities for significant variation of atomic ordering in the local ditetrahedral (Si,Al)2O7–xNx units. The two slightly structurally inequivalent aluminum sites in Y4Al2O9 are unambiguously assigned to the observed resonances. Computational findings on Y4Si2O7N2 demonstrate that the single observed 29Si NMR resonance covers a range of local inequivalent silicon environments. For the first time, the MAS NMR and neutron diffraction data from the Y4SiAlO8N structure have been directly reconciled, thus establishing aspects of atomic order and disorder that characterize this system. This comparison suggests that, although the diffraction data indicates long-range structural order supporting a highly crystalline character, the short-range information afforded by the solid-state NMR measurements indicates significant atomic disorder throughout the (Si,Al)2O7–xNx units.
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Seymour, V.R., Griffin, J.M., Griffith, B.E., Page, S.J., Iuga, D., Hanna, J.V. and Smith, M.E. (2020) Improved understanding of atomic ordering in Y4SixAI2-xO9-xNx materials using a combined solid-state NMR and computational approach. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124 (43), 23976-23987. (doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c07281).

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Ceramics based around silicon aluminum oxynitrides are of both fundamental structural chemistry and technological interest. Certain oxynitride crystal structures allow very significant compositional variation through extensive Si/N exchange for Al/O, which implies a degree of atomic ordering. In this study, solid-state 29Si MAS NMR and variable field 1D and 2D 27Al MAS NMR measurements are combined with density functional theory calculations of both the structural and NMR interaction parameters for various points across the Y4Si2O7N2–Y4Al2O9 compositional range. This series provides numerous possibilities for significant variation of atomic ordering in the local ditetrahedral (Si,Al)2O7–xNx units. The two slightly structurally inequivalent aluminum sites in Y4Al2O9 are unambiguously assigned to the observed resonances. Computational findings on Y4Si2O7N2 demonstrate that the single observed 29Si NMR resonance covers a range of local inequivalent silicon environments. For the first time, the MAS NMR and neutron diffraction data from the Y4SiAlO8N structure have been directly reconciled, thus establishing aspects of atomic order and disorder that characterize this system. This comparison suggests that, although the diffraction data indicates long-range structural order supporting a highly crystalline character, the short-range information afforded by the solid-state NMR measurements indicates significant atomic disorder throughout the (Si,Al)2O7–xNx units.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 October 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 October 2020
Published date: 29 October 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: Lancaster University is thanked for provision of the NMR, XRD, and HEC facilities, and for funding this research. Characterization facilities were partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the collaborative Technology Access Program (cTAP). Dr. Nathan Halcovitch (Lancaster University) is gratefully acknowledged for providing XRD support. The UK 850 MHz solid-state NMR Facility used in this research was funded by EPSRC and BBSRC (Contract Reference PR140003), as well as the University of Warwick, including via partial funding through Birmingham Science City Advanced Materials Projects 1 and 2 supported by Advantage West Midlands (AWM) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). M.E.S. thanks the University of Southampton for its support of his research. J.V.H. acknowledges financial support for the solid-state NMR instrumentation at Warwick which was funded by the EPSRC (Grants EP/M028186/1 and EP/K024418/1) and the University of Warwick. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 American Chemical Society.

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Author: V.R. Seymour
Author: J.M. Griffin
Author: B.E. Griffith
Author: S.J. Page
Author: D. Iuga
Author: J.V. Hanna
Author: M.E. Smith

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