Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol.103, No.10, 5496-5501, 2020
Mossbauer study of the temperature dependence of electron delocalization in mixed valence freudenbergite
The evolution of the electron delocalization in the ferrous subspectra in a sample of mixed valence ferrous-ferric freudenbergite has been followed by Mossbauer spectroscopy from 6 K to 650 K. The spectral changes do not involve the ferric component, leading to the conclusion that it is due to a thermally driven delocalization of the sixth d-electron on the ferrous ions. The phenomenon does not occur in samples of pure ferrous freudenbergite.