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The Synthesis and Thermal Expansion Behavior of Sodium and Calcium Zirconium Copper Phosphates

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The crystal-chemical approach has been applied to design materials with regulated thermal expansion. To that end, model simulations have been performed for compositions of phosphates that yield solid solutions of the following type Na1 + 2xZr2 –xCux(PO4)3 and Ca0.5 +xZr2 –xCux(PO4)3, 0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.5 with the expected structure of NaZr2(PO4)3 (NZP). The new phosphates have been prepared by solid-state reactions and characterized by X‑ray diffraction, IR spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. The compounds have been shown to crystallize in the NZP structure, with a particle size from 0.1 to 1 μm. The thermal expansion of the compounds has been studied by high-temperature X-ray diffraction in the temperature range from 25 to 700°C. Linear, average, and volume coefficients of thermal expansion and anisotropy of thermal expansion have been calculated and analyzed in relation to composition of Na, Zr, Cu and Ca, Zr, Cu phosphates in the studied sets.

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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 16-13-10464: Advanced ceramic like mineral materials with improved and adjustable service characteristics: design, synthesis, study, 2019–2020.

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    D. O. Savinykh, A. I. Orlova & L. S. Alekseeva

  2. University of Oviedo, Calle San Francisco 1, 33003, Oviedo, Spain

    S. A. Khainakov & S. Garcia-Granda

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Savinykh, D.O., Khainakov, S.A., Orlova, A.I. et al. The Synthesis and Thermal Expansion Behavior of Sodium and Calcium Zirconium Copper Phosphates. Inorg Mater 56, 388–394 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168520040147

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