Structural study of a new B-rich phase obtained by partial hydrogenation of 2NaH + MgB2
2013
Abstract The structure of an unknown crystalline phase observed during the hydrogen absorption reaction of the powder mixtures 2NaH + MgB 2 at high pressure has been studied by ab-initio structure determination from powder diffraction. The sequence of un-overlapped peaks extracted from the X-ray powder diffraction pattern could be indexed with a primitive cubic cell with lattice parameter a = 7.319 A. The diffraction patterns of the peaks are matched with the Pa-3 space group. The stoichiometry of the hydrogen absorption reaction suggests the presence of a high-boron content phase in the compound under investigation. Assuming this phase to be composed only by boron atoms and therefore having a density similar to that found for boron polymorphs, the solution with a space group of Pa-3 leads to reasonable B–B interatomic distances.
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