Controlled growth of SrxBa1-xNb2O6 hopper- and cube-shaped nanostructures by hydrothermal synthesis
Grendal, Ola Gjønnes; Nylund, Inger-Emma; Blichfeld, Anders Bank; Tominaka, Satoshi; Ohara, Koji; Selbach, Sverre Magnus; Grande, Tor; Einarsrud, Mari-Ann
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Controlling the shape and size of nanostructured materials has been a topic of interest in the field of material science for decades. In this work, the ferroelectric material SrxBa1-xNb2O6 (x = 0.32–0.82, SBN) was prepared by hydrothermal synthesis, and the morphology is controllably changed from cube-shaped to hollow-ended structures based on a fundamental understanding of the precursor chemistry. Synchrotron X-ray total scattering and PDF analysis was used to reveal the structure of the Nb-acid precursor, showing Lindqvist-like motifs. The changing growth mechanism, from layer-by-layer growth forming cubes to hopper-growth giving hollow-ended structures, is attributed to differences in supersaturation. Transmission electron microscopy revealed an inhomogeneous composition along the length of the hollow-ended particles, which is explained by preferential formation of the high entropy composition, SBN33, at the initial stages of particle nucleation and growth.