Exploring the Valence Diversity of Uranium by Flux Growth of Uranium Silicate under Inert Atmosphere

X Zhang, T Bo, Z Huang, Z Zhou, K Hu, W Shi… - Inorganic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The attributes of good solubility and the redox-neutral nature of molten salt fluxes enable
them to be useful for the synthesis of novel crystalline actinide compounds. In this work, a …

Flux Method Growth and Structural Analysis of Two Tetravalent Uranium Orthophosphate Single Crystals, Cs2UIV(PO4)2 and Isostructural Cs2(UIV0.75CeIV0.25)(PO4) …

Y Wang, X Zhang, L Li, T Bo, L Zhang - Inorganic Chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Two novel uranium (IV) orthophosphate framework compounds were obtained by the high-
temperature flux method in CsCl-CsF eutectic salt. Cs2UIV (PO4) 2 (1) and isostructural Cs2 …

Comparative Study on Crystal Structures and Synthetic Techniques of Ternary Hafnium/Zirconium Fluorides

N Keerthisinghe, GB Ayer, MD Smith… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mild hydrothermal synthesis was employed to grow high-quality single crystals of ternary
fluoridohafnates at low temperatures. The series of new materials was characterized using …

Develo** Waste Forms for Transuranic Elements: Quaternary Neptunium Fluorides of the Type NaxMNp6F30 (M = Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Al, Ga)

TK Deason, G Morrison, A Mofrad… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A series of quaternary Np (IV) fluorides was synthesized using a mild hydrothermal
synthesis approach. The compositions are all of the type Na x MNp6F30, where M= Ti (III), V …

Quaternary cerium (iv) containing fluorides exhibiting Ce 3 F 16 sheets and Ce 6 F 30 frameworks

GB Ayer, VV Klepov, KA Pace, HC Zur Loye - Dalton Transactions, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of new Ce (IV) based fluorides with two different compositions, Cs2MCe3F16 (M=
Ni2+, Co2+, Mn2+, and Zn2+) and Na3MCe6F30 (M= Al3+, Ga3+, Fe3+, and Cr3+) were …

Transition-Metal Monofluorophosphate Ba2M2(PO3F)F6 (M = Mn, Co, and Ni): Varied One-Dimensional Transition-Metal Chains and Antiferromagnetism

B Zhu, J Jiang, T Zhu, H Yang, Y **, KY Choi… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Four transition-metal monofluorophosphates, with a chemical formula of Ba2M2 (PO3F) F6
(M= Mn, Co, Ni, and Cu), have been synthesized hydrothermally using phosphoric and …

Expansion of the Na3MIII(Ln/An)6F30 Series: Incorporation of Plutonium into a Highly Robust and Stable Framework

KA Pace, VV Klepov, TK Deason… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
NanMAn6F30 is an extremely versatile framework structure for incorporating tetravalent
actinides (An) and cerium along with divalent or trivalent d‐metals (M); moreover, the …

Na2(UO2)(BO3): An All-Uranium(V) Borate Synthesized under Mild Hydrothermal Conditions

KA Pace, V Kocevski, SG Karakalos… - Inorganic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The first entirely pentavalent uranium borate, Na2 (UO2)(BO3), was synthesized under mild
hydrothermal conditions. The single-crystal structure was solved in the orthorhombic space …

Mild hydrothermal synthesis of the complex hafnium-containing fluorides Cs2 [M (H2O) 6][Hf2F12](M= Ni, Co, Zn), CuHfF6 (H2O) 4, and Cs2Hf3Mn3F20 based on …

GB Ayer, VV Klepov, MD Smith… - Inorganic Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
A series of new Hf (IV)-containing fluorides with three different compositions, Cs2 [M (H2O)
6][Hf2F12](M= Ni, Co, Zn), CuHfF6 (H2O) 4, and Cs2Hf3Mn3F20, were synthesized as high …

3d-Metal induced magnetic ordering on U (IV) atoms as a route toward U (IV) magnetic materials

VV Klepov, KA Pace, S Calder, JB Felder… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Uranium (IV) 5f2 magnetism is dominated by a transition from a triplet to a singlet ground
state at low temperatures. For the first time, we achieved magnetic ordering of U (IV) atoms …