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A New Look at the Structural Properties of Trisodium Uranate Na3UO4

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The crystal structure of trisodium uranate, which forms following the interaction between sodium and hyperstoichiometric urania, has been solved for the first time using powder X-ray and neutron diffraction, X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy, and solid-state 23Na multiquantum magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance. The compound, isostructural with Na3BiO4, has monoclinic symmetry, in space group P2/c. Moreover, it has been shown that this structure can accommodate some cationic disorder, with up to 16(2)% sodium on the uranium site, corresponding to the composition α-Na3(U1?x,Nax)O4 (0 < x < 0.18). The α phase adopts a mixed valence state with the presence of U(V) and U(VI). The two polymorphs of this compound described in the literature, m- and ?-Na3(U1?x,Nax)O4, have also been investigated, and their relationship to the α phase has been established. The completely disordered low-temperature cubic phase corresponds to a metastable phase. The semiordered high-temperature ? phase is cubic, in space group Fd3?m.

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hal-01187795 , version 1 (27-08-2015)

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Anna L. Smith, Philippe E. Raison, Laura Martel, Damien Prieur, Thibault Charpentier, et al.. A New Look at the Structural Properties of Trisodium Uranate Na3UO4. Inorganic Chemistry, 2015, 54 (7), pp.3552-3561. ⟨10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00136⟩. ⟨hal-01187795⟩
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