Rainer Niewa was born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1967. He studied Chemistry at the Universita ¨t-Gesamthochschule Essen and the Universita ¨t Dortmund where he received his Dr. degree in 1995. His research activities concentrate on the preparation, crystal structures, and properties of transition metal nitrides.
Examination of the infrared spectra of synthetic kaolinites, with various degrees of substitution of hydroxyls by OD groups, allows a more detailed attribution of the stretching bands due to inner-surface hydroxyls of kaolinite. Among the three innersurface OH groups of the unit cell, two are nearly perpendicular to the sheet and give coupled vibrations which are responsible for the bands around 3695 and 3670 cm−1; the band near 3655 cm−1 is due to the other hydroxyl, which is lying close to the sheet.
The metallic interstitial nitride Ni(3)N was prepared from Ni(NH(3))(6)Cl(2) and NaNH(2) in supercritical ammonia (p(NH(3)) approximately 2 kbar) at 523 K. Its previously reported crystal structure, as determined from X-ray powder data, was confirmed by neutron powder diffraction: Ni(3)N crystallizes in the hexagonal epsilon-Fe(3)N-type structure (P6(3)22, Z = 2, a = 4.6224 A and c = 4.3059 A at room temperature). The N atoms on the octahedral sites of an hcp arrangement of Ni show virtually complete occupational order at ambient temperatures, which is preserved up to its thermal decomposition at T approximately 600 K. This behavior is in marked contrast to that of the isotypic iron nitride, epsilon-Fe(3)N, which shows reversible partial disordering within the same range of temperatures. Possible reasons for the different behaviors of the two nitrides epsilon-Fe(3)N and Ni(3)N are discussed.
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