A Spectroscopic and Computational Study of Cm3+ Incorporation in Lanthanide Phosphate Rhabdophane (LnPO4 ·0.67H2 O) and Monazite (LnPO4 )

Inorganic Chemistry
Nina HuittinenThorsten Stumpf

Abstract

This study investigates the incorporation of the minor actinide curium (Cm3+) in a series of synthetic La1- xGd xPO4 ( x = 0, 0.24, 0.54, 0.83, 1) monazite and rhabdophane solid-solutions. To obtain information on the incorporation process on the molecular scale and to understand the distribution of the dopant in the synthetic phosphate phases, combined time-resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy and X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy investigations were conducted and complemented with ab initio atomistic simulations. We found that Cm3+ is incorporated in the monazite endmembers (LaPO4 and GdPO4) on one specific, highly ordered lattice site. The intermediate solid-solutions, however, display increasing disorder around the Cm3+ dopant as a result of random variations in nearest neighbor distances. In hydrated rhabdophane, and especially its La-rich solid-solutions, Cm3+ is preferentially incorporated on nonhydrated lattice sites. This site occupancy is not in agreement with the hydrated rhabdophane structure, where two-thirds of the lattice sites are associated with water of hydration (LnPO4·0.67H2O), implying that structural substitution reactions cannot be predicted based on the structure of the host matrix only.

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