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Title: | Rigorous characterization of oxygen vacancies in ionic oxides |
Author: | Mori-Sánchez, P. Recio, J. M. Silvi, B. Sousa Romero, Carmen Martín Pendás, A. Luaña, Víctor Illas i Riera, Francesc |
Keywords: | Estructura atòmica Estructura molecular Òxids metàl·lics Química de superfícies Atomic structure Molecular structure Metallic oxides Surface chemistry |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
Publisher: | The American Physical Society |
Abstract: | Charged and neutral oxygen vacancies in the bulk and on perfect and defective surfaces of MgO are characterized as quantum-mechanical subsystems chemically bonded to the host lattice and containing most of the charge left by the removed oxygens. Attractors of the electron density appear inside the vacancy, a necessary condition for the existence of a subsystem according to the atoms in molecules theory. The analysis of the electron localization function also shows attractors at the vacancy sites, which are associated to a localization basin shared with the valence domain of the nearest oxygens. This polyatomic superanion exhibits chemical trends guided by the formal charge and the coordination of the vacancy. The topological approach is shown to be essential to understand and predict the nature and chemical reactivity of these objects. There is not a vacancy but a coreless pseudoanion that behaves as an activated host oxygen. |
Note: | Reproducció digital del document publicat en format paper, proporcionada per PROLA i http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.075103 |
It is part of: | Physical Review B, 2002, vol. 66, núm. 7, p. 075103-1-075103-6 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/10802 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.075103 |
ISSN: | 0163-1829 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Ciència dels Materials i Química Física) |
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