Abstract
NaNb1–xTixO3–0.5x (0 < x ≤ 0.15) compounds were prepared using a two-step synthesis process involving a hydrothermal route at T = 200 °C in an autoclave followed by heat treatments under air or reductive conditions. Rietveld structural refinements from X-ray diffraction data combined with 23Na and 93Nb nuclear magnetic resonance evidenced the formation of new complex oxides crystallizing in the P21ma space group. Ti substitution for Nb atoms contributes to stabilize the acentric polymorph rather than the well-known thermodynamically stabilized network (Pbma space group) of sodium niobate. Taking into account the competitive bond sequence Na1(2)–O1(2)–Nb–O3(4), the large variation of Na1–O1 and Na2–O2 bond lengths after Ti substitution leads to reduction of the Nb/Ti–O1 and Nb/Ti–O2 apical distortion (elongation in one direction) and consequently exaltation of the distortion in the equatorial plane. Then, transition metal crystal field splitting, as well as the second-order Jahn–Teller effect, increases, a...
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