Abstract
The crystal structure of layered cobalt oxide Na0.5CoO2 has been determined by means of the (3+1)-dimensional superspace group approach. Structural parameters have been refined with a superspace group of Ccmm(1 p0)000 using powder neutron diffraction data collected below room temperature. The compound can be regarded as a misfit-layered cobalt oxide which consists of [Na] and [CoO2] subsystems, with a refined misfit parameter p=bCoO2 /bNa=0.5011(7) at 296 K. A parallel set of zigzag arrangements, i.e., the positional modulation, of Na ions has been revealed along the b-axis. The temperature-dependent alteration of Co–O distances shows discontinuous characteristics below the phase transition temperature around 80 K, which indicates the charge-separation of Co ions. On the basis of the bond valence sum calculation, a one-dimensional charge-separation pattern of Co ions with charges of +3.5+δ and +3.5-δ, perpendicular to the Na zigzag chains, is established.
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