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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 139, Issue 30, Pages 10499-10505Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05432
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- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [FR 1555/10-1]
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High-pressure silicates making up the main proportion of the earth's interior can incorporate a significant amount of water in the form of OH defects. Generally, they are charge balanced by removing low-valent cations such as Mg2+. By combining high resolution multidimensional single- and double-quantum H-1 solid-state NMR spectroscopy with density functional theory calculations, we show that, for ringwoodite (gamma-Mg2SiO4), additionally, Si4+ vacancies are formed, even at a water content as low as 0.1 wt %. They are charge balanced by either four protons or one Mg2+ and two protons. Surprisingly, also a significant proportion of coupled Mg and Si vacancies are present. Furthermore, all defect types feature a pronounced orientational disorder of the OH groups, which results in a significant range of OH center dot center dot center dot O bond distributions. As such, we are able to present unique insight into the defect chemistry of ringwoodite's spinel structure, which not only accounts for a potentially large fraction of the earth's entire water budget, but will also control transport properties in the mantle. We expect that our results will even impact other hydrous spinel-type materials, helping to understand properties such as ion conduction and heterogeneous catalysis.
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