Charge transfer drives anomalous phase transition in ceria

Nanosized ceria has conventionally been thought to have a cubic fluorite structure. Here, the authors use a combination of experiments and simulations to show that oxygen vacancies in ceria promote a charge-transfer induced phase transition from tetragonal to cubic.

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Main Authors: He Zhu, Chao Yang, Qiang Li, Yang Ren, Joerg C. Neuefeind, Lin Gu, Huibiao Liu, Longlong Fan, Jun Chen, Jinxia Deng, Na Wang, Jiawang Hong, Xianran Xing
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/adcd860d72c0421c8136473f6686fe3d
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