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Niobium- and tantalum-containing oxide materials: Synthesis, properties, and application

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Works devoted to developing the methods of producing oxide niobium- and tantalum-containing materials are reviewed. The main idea consists in the development of methods of a controllable synthesis of a new class of precursors: mono- and bimetallic Low Hydrated Hydroxides (LHH) of niobium and/or tantalum (Nb n Ta1 − n O x (OH)5 − x · mH2O) and use of intermediates on their basis in synthesis of complex oxide phases, with production of materials of high phase and chemical homogeneity and specified granulometric composition.

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Nikishina, E.E., Lebedeva, E.N. & Drobot, D.V. Niobium- and tantalum-containing oxide materials: Synthesis, properties, and application. Inorg Mater 48, 1243–1260 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002016851213002X

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