The 950°C isothermal section of the ScPO
4-Na
3PO
4-Li
3PO
4 three-component system was plotted and studied; one-, two-, and three-phase fields were bounded. Three solid solution fields
exist in the title system: one based on LiNa
5(PO
4)
2 complex phosphate (olympite structure), another on scandium-stabilized high-temperature Na
3PO
4 phase Na
3(1 − x)Sc
x/3□
2/3x
PO
4 (space group
Fm3
m), and the third on Na
3Sc
2(PO
4)
3 (NASICON structure). All phases found in the title system are derivatives of phases that exist in its subsystems. Lithium-for-sodium
isovalent substitutions in Na
3Sc
2(PO
4)
3 considerably increase the NASICON-type solid solution field but negatively influence the conductivity of the phase.
Original Russian Text © G.V. Zimina, M.A. Zhuravleva, I.N. Smirnova, F.M. Spiridonov, A.V. Novoselov, A.L. Il’inskii, 2009,
published in Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii, 2009, Vol. 54, No. 12, pp. 2073–2078.