Thermal stability of mullite RMn2O5 (R = Bi, Y, Pr, Sm or Gd): combined density functional theory and experimental study
- Authors
- Li, Chenzhe; Thampy, Sampreetha; Zheng, Yongping; Kweun, Joshua M.; Ren, Yixin; Chan, Julia Y.; Kim, Hanchul; Cho, Maenghyo; Kim, Yoon Young; Hsu, Julia W. P.; Cho, Kyeongjae
- Issue Date
- Feb-2016
- Publisher
- IOP PUBLISHING LTD
- Keywords
- phase transition; rare earth oxides; thermal stability; first principles simulation
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, v.28, no.12
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
- Volume
- 28
- Number
- 12
- URI
- https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/9909
- DOI
- 10.1088/0953-8984/28/12/125602
- ISSN
- 0953-8984
1361-648X
- Abstract
- Understanding and effectively predicting the thermal stability of ternary transition metal oxides with heavy elements using first principle simulations are vital for understanding performance of advanced materials. In this work, we have investigated the thermal stability of mullite RMn2O5 (R = Bi, Pr, Sm, or Gd) structures by constructing temperature phase diagrams using an efficient mixed generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and the GGA + U method. Simulation predicted stability regions without corrections on heavy elements show a 4-200 K underestimation compared to our experimental results. We have found the number of d/f electrons in the heavy elements shows a linear relationship with the prediction deviation. Further correction on the strongly correlated electrons in heavy elements could significantly reduce the prediction deviations. Our corrected simulation results demonstrate that further correction of R-site elements in RMn2O5 could effectively reduce the underestimation of the density functional theory-predicted decomposition temperature to within 30 K. Therefore, it could produce an accurate thermal stability prediction for complex ternary transition metal oxide compounds with heavy elements.
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