Abstract

AbstractOxides can experience structural transformations resulting from variations in cation oxidation states or coordination geometry upon thermal treatment. Whether such structural distortions can affect the stability of high‐entropy oxides has not been studied. In this research, a new, high‐entropy, lanthanide sesquioxide, Gd0.4Tb0.4Dy0.4Ho0.4Er0.4O3 solid solution having a single phase, cubic‐bixbyite structure was synthesized, with no phase transformation from room temperature to 1650°C. The phase stability was examined via both in situ and ex situ, high‐temperature, synchrotron, X‐ray powder diffraction. This high‐entropy oxide could inhibit the phase transformations occurring in constituent monocation sesquioxides, Tb2O3 and Gd2O3, via random arrangement of multications.

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