Depicting the crystal structure of fibrous ferrierite from British Columbia using a combined synchrotron techniques approach

Author:

Giacobbe CarlottaORCID,Wright JonathanORCID,Dejoie Catherine,Tafforeau Paul,Berruyer Camille,Vigliaturo Ruggero,Gieré Reto,Gualtieri Alessandro F.

Abstract

The ferrierite crystal structure has often been subject to discussion because of the possible lowering of symmetry from the space group Immm. It mainly occurs in nature with a fibrous crystal habit, and because of the existence of line/planar defects in the framework, texture and preferred orientation effects it has been difficult to obtain an exact crystallographic model based only on the results from powder diffraction data. Therefore, nano-single-crystal diffraction and tomography data have been combined in order to improve the refinement with a meaningful model. High-quality single-crystal data, providing reliable structural information, and tomography images have been used as input for a Rietveld refinement which took into account a phenomenological description of stacking disorder and the analytical description of the preferred orientation, by means of spherical harmonics for strong texture effects. This is one of the first examples of application of synchrotron nano-diffraction for the structure solution of fibrous minerals of micrometre to nanometre size. The high quality of the crystals allowed collection of single-crystal X-ray diffraction data of up to 0.6 Å resolution, leading to an unambiguous solution and precise anisotropic refinement. Nano-single-crystal diffraction and phase contrast tomography data were collected at ID11 and the high-resolution powder diffraction patterns at ID22 of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. This detailed crystallographic characterization provides a basis for understanding the potential of ferrierite for toxicity and carcinogenicity.

Funder

Fondo di Ateneo per la Ricerca

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

National Science Foundation

Publisher

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)

Subject

General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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