Oxygen interstitial structures in close-packed metal oxides

Alexey A. Sokol; Aron Walsh; C. Richard A. Catlow

doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2010.04.029

Oxygen interstitial structures in close-packed metal oxides

Alexey A. Sokol, Aron Walsh, C. Richard A. Catlow

Department of Physics

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Abstract

We examine oxygen incorporation in alpha-Al₂O₃ using electronic structure techniques. We demonstrate that the ground-state configuration is a peroxide split interstitial, which is more than 2 eV lower in energy than the oxide closed-shell interstitial species in alumina, which proves to be only a transition state. Our results have general implications for the nature of oxygen interstitials in close-packed oxides.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	44-48
Number of pages	5
Journal	Chemical Physics Letters
Volume	492
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2010.04.029
State	Published - 26 May 2010

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This work made use of the facilities of HECToR, the UK’s national high-performance computing service via our membership of the UK’s HPC Materials Chemistry Consortium, which is funded by EPSRC ( EP/F067496 ). A.W. would like to acknowledge funding from a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship from the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. The work has also been supported by an EPSRC Portfolio Partnership (Grant No. ED/D504872 ).

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