Authors:
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
- Provides a didactic overview of the main experimental and theoretical methodologies employed nowadays in the field of intermetallic chemistry
- Presents in detail the synthetic procedures, metallographic characterization and crystal structure determination of several ternary rare-earth germanides
- Discusses chemical bonding using state of the art position-space techniques proposing also new and sophisticated tools
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The thesis focuses on the syntheses, structural characterizations and chemical bonding analyses for several ternary R–M–Ge (R = rare earth metal; M = another metal) intermetallics. The challenges in understanding the main interactions governing the chemistry of these compounds, which lead to our inability to predict their formation, structure and properties, are what provided the motivation for this study. In particular, the R2MGe6 (M = Li, Mg, Al, Cu, Zn, Pd, Ag), R4MGe10-x (M = Li, Mg), R2Pd3Ge5, Lu5Pd4Ge8, Lu3Pd4Ge4 and Yb2PdGe3 phases were synthesized and structurally characterized. Much effort was put into the stabilization of metastable phases, employing the innovative metal flux method, and into the accurate structure solution of twinned crystals. Cutting-edge position-space chemical bonding techniques were combined with newmethodologies conceived to correctly describe the Ge–M, Ge–La and also La–M polar-covalent interactions for the La2MGe6 (M = Li, Mg, Al, Cu, Zn, Pd, Ag) series. The present results constitute a step forward in our comprehension of ternary germanide chemistry as well as providing a good playground for further investigations.
Authors and Affiliations
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Chemical Metals Science, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
Riccardo Freccero
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Study of New Ternary Rare-Earth Intermetallic Germanides with Polar Covalent Bonding
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Zintl Picture
Authors: Riccardo Freccero
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58992-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58991-2Published: 17 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58994-3Published: 17 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58992-9Published: 16 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 221
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Materials Science, general, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Physical Chemistry, Structural Materials, Chemistry/Food Science, general