Structural study of BiNiO3 at high pressures and low temperatures

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BiNiO3, synthesized at high pressure, has the unusual charge distribution Bi3+0.5Bi5+0.5Ni2+O3 with ordering of Bi3+ and Bi5+ charges on the A sites of a highly distorted perovskite structure at ambient pressure [1]. BiNiO3 shows a transition to a metallic state at 3-4 GPa pressure, and a previous powder neutron diffraction at PEARL/HiPr showed that the pressure-induced melting of the charge disproportionated state leads to a simultaneous charge transfer from Ni to Bi, so that the HP phase is metallic Bi3+Ni3+O3 [2]. Recent measurements have shown that a metal to insulator transition is observed on cooling below 250K at 3.6GPa pressure. To discover whether a predicted Ni-disproportionationed state IV Bi3+Ni2+0.5Ni4+0.5O3 is present at low temperatures we request a further, low T, high P neutron experiment.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24003144
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24003144
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Creator Dr Mikio Takano; Dr Shintato Ishiwata; Dr Wei-tin Chen; Ms Sandra Carlsson; Dr Yuichi Shimakawa; Professor Paul Attfield; Professor Masakai Azuma
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2010
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2007-10-09T10:47:46Z
Temporal Coverage End 2007-10-12T11:37:07Z