Single crystal growth and structure refinement of Li4Ti5O12

Single crystal of Li4Ti5O12 was synthesized by a flux method using LiCl flux. The obtained Li4Ti5O12 single crystal is colorless and has the shape of a rod. Li4Ti5O12 crystallizes in the cubic spinel type structure, space group Fd (3) over barm, a = 8.352 (4)angstrom, V = 583.6 (8) angstrom(3), and Z = 8. The structure was determined by a single-crystal X-ray study and refined to the conventional values of R 3.6% and wR = 3.3% for 209 independent observed reflections. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.