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  • Title: On the structural chemistry of gamma-brasses: two different interpenetrating networks in ternary F-cell Pd-Zn-Al phases.
    Author: Thimmaiah S, Miller GJ.
    Journal: Chemistry; 2010 May 10; 16(18):5461-71. PubMed ID: 20373310.
    Abstract:
    Novel ternary phases, (Pd(1-x)Zn(x))(18)(Zn(1-y)Al(y))(86-delta) (0<or=x<or=0.162, 0.056</=y<or=0.088, 0<or=delta<or=4), which adopt a superstructure of the gamma-brass type (called gamma'-brass), have been synthesized from the elements at 1120 K. Single-crystal X-ray structural analysis reveals a phase width (F43m, a=18.0700(3)-18.1600(2) A, Pearson symbols cF400-cF416), which is associated with structural disorder based on both vacancies as well as mixed site occupancies. These structures are constructed of four independent 26-atom gamma-clusters per primitive unit cells and centered at the four special positions A (0, 0, 0), B (1/4, 1/4, 1/4), C (1/2, 1/2, 1/2) and D (3/4, 3/4, 3/4). Two of these, centered at B and C, are completely ordered Pd(4)Zn(22) clusters, whereas the other two, centered at A and D, contain all structural disorder in the system. According to our single-crystal X-ray results, Al substitutions are restricted to the A- and D-centered clusters. Moreover, the outer tetrahedron (OT) site of the 26-atom cluster at D is completely vacant at the Al-rich boundary of these phases. Electronic structure calculations, using the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital atomic-spheres approximation (TB-LMTO-ASA) method, on models of these new, ternary gamma'-brass phases indicate that the observed chemical compositions and atomic distributions lead to the presence of a pseudogap at the Fermi level in the electronic density of states curves, which is consistent with the Hume-Rothery interpretation of gamma-brasses, in general.
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