Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1237741 | Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
A series of NicMg1 â cO solid solutions are characterized by means of synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption near-edge-structure spectroscopy at oxygen K-edge (532 eV). A dramatic drop of the pre-edge peak intensity is observed in the NicMg1 â cO system upon dilution. It can be attributed to a decrease of 3d8(Ni2+)-2p(O2â) mixing upon dilution with magnesium ions due to a decrease of the number of 3d vacancies as nickel ion is replaced by magnesium ion. Similarly, the decrease of the number of 4s and 4p vacancies also leads to a decrease of 4s4p(Ni2+)-2p(O2â) hybridization, and hence a drop of intensities of features B and C. The features E and F are more sensitive to the increase of the degree of disorder upon dilution than feature D, revealing that the latter is mainly dependent by the medium-range order.
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Authors
Dongliang Chen, Jun Zhong, Xiang Wu, Ziyu Wu, Nina Mironova-Ulmane, Alexei Kuzmin, Augosto Marcelli,