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CRYSTENGCOMM
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 1350-1359Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0ce00414f
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KNbO3 (KN) and K1-xNaxNbO3 (KNN) anisometric crystals have been produced by a chemical conversion route. Crystals of the compounds K4Nb6O17, K2Nb4O11 and KNb3O8 with high aspect ratio were first grown in molten KCl. The non-perovskite compounds were further converted to KN or KNN perovskites by reaction with K2CO3 or Na2CO3 at 800 degrees C with or without the presence of molten KCl. Through a dissolution-precipitation mechanism needle-or plate-like KNN and KN particles with high aspect ratios were formed with preferred orientation along the [011] or [100] directions. A short reaction time was observed to yield complete chemical conversion to polycrystalline KN/KNN, while single crystals with the morphology resembling the non-perovskite templates were obtained after longer reaction time by Ostwald ripening.
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