@article{WolffKlimmHabichtetal.2021,
  author    = {Wolff, Nora and Klimm, Detlef and Habicht, Klaus and Fritsch, Katharina},
  title     = {Crystal growth and thermodynamic investigation of Bi2M2+O4 (M = Pd, Cu)},
  series = {CrystEngComm / The Royal Society of Chemistry},
  volume    = {23},
  journal   = {CrystEngComm / The Royal Society of Chemistry},
  number    = {17},
  publisher = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  issn      = {1466-8033},
  doi       = {10.1039/d1ce00220a},
  pages     = {3230 -- 3238},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Phase equilibria that are relevant for the growth of Bi2MO4 have been studied experimentally, and the ternary phase diagrams of Bi2O3-PdO2-Pd and Bi2O3-Cu2O-CuO and its isopleth section Bi2O3-CuO were redetermined. It is shown that every melting and crystallization process is always accompanied by a redox process at the phase boundary and that for both title compounds, the valence of the transition metal is lowered during melting. Vice versa, during crystal growth, O-2 must be transported through the melt to the phase boundary. Based on these new insights provided by our thermodynamic studies, Bi2CuO4 single crystals with a length of up to 7 cm and a diameter of 6 mm were grown by the OFZ technique to be used for investigations of magnetic, electronic and thermal transport properties. The grown crystals were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, Laue, magnetization and specific heat measurements.},
  language  = {en}
}