Atomic structural changes in the formation of transition metal tungstates: the role of polyoxometalate structures in material crystallization
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Atomic structural changes in the formation of transition metal tungstates : the role of polyoxometalate structures in material crystallization. / Skjærvø, Susanne Linn; Anker, Andy S.; Wied, Magnus C.; Kjær, Emil T.S.; Juelsholt, Mikkel; Christiansen, Troels Lindahl; Jensen, Kirsten M.Ø.
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T1 - Atomic structural changes in the formation of transition metal tungstates
T2 - the role of polyoxometalate structures in material crystallization
AU - Skjærvø, Susanne Linn
AU - Anker, Andy S.
AU - Wied, Magnus C.
AU - Kjær, Emil T.S.
AU - Juelsholt, Mikkel
AU - Christiansen, Troels Lindahl
AU - Jensen, Kirsten M.Ø.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Material nucleation processes are poorly understood; nevertheless, an atomistic understanding of material formation would aid in the design of material synthesis methods. Here, we apply in situ X-ray total scattering experiments with pair distribution function (PDF) analysis to study the hydrothermal synthesis of wolframite-type MWO4 (M : Mn, Fe, Co, Ni). The data obtained allow the mapping of the material formation pathway in detail. We first show that upon mixing of the aqueous precursors, a crystalline precursor containing [W8O27]6- clusters forms for the MnWO4 synthesis, while amorphous pastes form for the FeWO4, CoWO4 and NiWO4 syntheses. The structure of the amorphous precursors was studied in detail with PDF analysis. Using database structure mining and an automated modelling strategy by applying machine learning, we show that the amorphous precursor structure can be described through polyoxometalate chemistry. A skewed sandwich cluster containing Keggin fragments describes the PDF of the precursor structure well, and the analysis shows that the precursor for FeWO4 is more ordered than that of CoWO4 and NiWO4. Upon heating, the crystalline MnWO4 precursor quickly converts directly to crystalline MnWO4, while the amorphous precursors transform into a disordered intermediate phase before the crystalline tungstates appear. Our data show that the more disordered the precursor is, the longer the reaction time required to form crystalline products, and disorder in the precursor phase appears to be a barrier for crystallization. More generally, we see that polyoxometalate chemistry is useful when describing the initial wet-chemical formation of mixed metal oxides.
AB - Material nucleation processes are poorly understood; nevertheless, an atomistic understanding of material formation would aid in the design of material synthesis methods. Here, we apply in situ X-ray total scattering experiments with pair distribution function (PDF) analysis to study the hydrothermal synthesis of wolframite-type MWO4 (M : Mn, Fe, Co, Ni). The data obtained allow the mapping of the material formation pathway in detail. We first show that upon mixing of the aqueous precursors, a crystalline precursor containing [W8O27]6- clusters forms for the MnWO4 synthesis, while amorphous pastes form for the FeWO4, CoWO4 and NiWO4 syntheses. The structure of the amorphous precursors was studied in detail with PDF analysis. Using database structure mining and an automated modelling strategy by applying machine learning, we show that the amorphous precursor structure can be described through polyoxometalate chemistry. A skewed sandwich cluster containing Keggin fragments describes the PDF of the precursor structure well, and the analysis shows that the precursor for FeWO4 is more ordered than that of CoWO4 and NiWO4. Upon heating, the crystalline MnWO4 precursor quickly converts directly to crystalline MnWO4, while the amorphous precursors transform into a disordered intermediate phase before the crystalline tungstates appear. Our data show that the more disordered the precursor is, the longer the reaction time required to form crystalline products, and disorder in the precursor phase appears to be a barrier for crystallization. More generally, we see that polyoxometalate chemistry is useful when describing the initial wet-chemical formation of mixed metal oxides.
U2 - 10.1039/d3sc00426k
DO - 10.1039/d3sc00426k
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37181762
AN - SCOPUS:85153516894
VL - 14
JO - Chemical Science
JF - Chemical Science
SN - 2041-6520
IS - 18
ER -
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