Single crystals of five transition metal uranium fluorides were obtained via the use of a mild hydrothermal route.Uranyl acetate was used as both the uranium source and the reducing agent for an in situ reduction of U...Single crystals of five transition metal uranium fluorides were obtained via the use of a mild hydrothermal route.Uranyl acetate was used as both the uranium source and the reducing agent for an in situ reduction of U(VI)to U(IV).The synthesized materials are present as both two-and three-dimensional structures and contain uranium in 9-fold coordination environments.Magnetic susceptibility measurements indicate that the reported materials remain paramagnetic down to 2 K,with no evidence for the existence of longrange magnetic ordering.Thermogravimetric analysis studies of the reported materials are also presented.展开更多
基金Research supported by the US Department of Energy,Office of Basic Energy Sciences,Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under award DE-SC0008664.
文摘Single crystals of five transition metal uranium fluorides were obtained via the use of a mild hydrothermal route.Uranyl acetate was used as both the uranium source and the reducing agent for an in situ reduction of U(VI)to U(IV).The synthesized materials are present as both two-and three-dimensional structures and contain uranium in 9-fold coordination environments.Magnetic susceptibility measurements indicate that the reported materials remain paramagnetic down to 2 K,with no evidence for the existence of longrange magnetic ordering.Thermogravimetric analysis studies of the reported materials are also presented.
