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Strong anisotropic thermal expansion in borates
Author(s) -
Bubnova Rimma S.,
Filatov Stanislav K.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.200880253
Subject(s) - thermal expansion , boron , anisotropy , polyhedron , negative thermal expansion , diffraction , crystallography , ion , materials science , crystal structure , thermal , chemistry , thermodynamics , geometry , physics , metallurgy , organic chemistry , optics , mathematics
The paper summarizes results of high‐temperature single crystal X‐ray diffraction studies for six borate structures and high‐temperature powder X‐ray diffraction data for about 50 borates. The characteristics on thermal expansion of 50 borates of univalent, bivalent and trivalent metals of different dimensionality and anion structure are listed. The basic principles of high‐temperature borate crystal chemistry emerge from these studies and the regularities of borate thermal behavior are revealed. On heating the BO 3 and BO 4 polyhedra and rigid groups consisting of these polyhedra practically do not change their configuration and size but sometimes rotate like hinges exhibiting greatly anisotropic thermal expansion including linear negative expansion. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)