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Occupation waves the way you have never seen them : The orthorhombic quasicrystal approximants RE13Zn58+δ (RE = Ho, Er, Tm, and Lu)

Piao, Shu Ying and Lidin, Sven LU (2007) In Inorganic Chemistry 46(16). p.6452-6463
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A series of binary quasicrystal approximants RE13Zn 58+δ (RE = Ho, Er, Tm, and Lu) have been prepared, and structural studies were performed by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction. All four compounds crystallize in the orthorhombic system, but while the Ho-containing compound crystallizes in space group Pcmn, the rest of the compounds crystallize in Pc21n. This work is a continuation of the structural studies on RE13Zn∼58 (RE = Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, and Dy), which all belong to the hexagonal system. The sequence of RE13Zn58+δ compounds exhibits a large variability in local ordering and composition, and therefore the crystal structures are generally... (More)

A series of binary quasicrystal approximants RE13Zn 58+δ (RE = Ho, Er, Tm, and Lu) have been prepared, and structural studies were performed by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction. All four compounds crystallize in the orthorhombic system, but while the Ho-containing compound crystallizes in space group Pcmn, the rest of the compounds crystallize in Pc21n. This work is a continuation of the structural studies on RE13Zn∼58 (RE = Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, and Dy), which all belong to the hexagonal system. The sequence of RE13Zn58+δ compounds exhibits a large variability in local ordering and composition, and therefore the crystal structures are generally rather more complex than those previously reported and exhibit a number of different ordering modes. These four compounds are structurally closely related to each other.

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  author       = {{Piao, Shu Ying and Lidin, Sven}},
  issn         = {{0020-1669}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  number       = {{16}},
  pages        = {{6452--6463}},
  publisher    = {{The American Chemical Society (ACS)}},
  series       = {{Inorganic Chemistry}},
  title        = {{Occupation waves the way you have never seen them : The orthorhombic quasicrystal approximants RE<sub>13</sub>Zn<sub>58+δ</sub> (RE = Ho, Er, Tm, and Lu)}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic700476w}},
  doi          = {{10.1021/ic700476w}},
  volume       = {{46}},
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