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J. Mater. Chem., 1994, 4, 1303 - 1305, DOI: 10.1039/JM9940401303

Li3Ni2TaO6: A novel rock salt superstructure phase with partial cation order

James G. Fletcher, Glenn C. Mather, Anthony R. West, Maria Castellanos and Maria Pilar Gutierrez

The new phase Li3Ni2TaO6 has a novel rock salt superstructure, a= 8.4259(3)Å, b= 5.9073(3)Å, c= 17.7329 Å, Fddd. Within the cubic-close-packed oxide array, Ta occupies one set of octahedral sites giving isolated TaO6 octahedra which edge-share with Li/NiO6 octahedra Li and Ni are distributed non-randomly over three other sets of octahedral sites with Li : Ni occupancy ratios of 0.73 : 0.27, 0.59 : 0.41 and 0.55 : 0.45, respectively The higher Li : Ni ratio of the first set, 0.73 : 0.27 may be associated with cation-cation repulsion effects since this site is closest to Ta. Li3Ni2TaO6 is a very modest semiconductor with conductivity of ca. 4 × 10–6–1 cm–1 at 300 °C and activation energy 0.77 eV, the disorder in the Li+ site occupancy is, therefore, static and does not yield significant levels of Li+ ion conductivity.