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The thermodynamic stability of three near-degenerate phases of platinum dioxide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Shuping Zhuo
Affiliation:
School of Chemical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, P.R. China Department of Chemistry, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A.
Karl Sohlberg
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The thermodynamic stability of the three nearly energy degenerate crystal structures of PtO2 is studied here with first-principles-based calculations of their free energies. For P = 0 the α-(CdI2) structure is the thermodynamically stable phase at low temperature, while the β-(CaCl2) structure is stable at high pressure. The β'-(rutile) structure represents an unstable fixed point on the potential energy surface, or is possibly just barely bound. These results reconcile seemingly contradictory findings and answer longstanding questions about PtO2.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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