Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2013
X-ray powder diffraction data and refined unit cell parameters for SrTi3Nb4O17, SrTi5Nb4O21, SrTi7Nb4O25, SrTi9Nb4O29, SrTi11Nb4O33, SrTi13Nb4O37, and SrTi15Nb4O41 are reported here. The powder patterns for these oxides suggest that they form a homologous series SrM2n+1O4n+5 (M=Ti, Nb; n=3→9), which is isostructural with the orthorhombic “chemically twinned rutile” series found previously in the K2O-TiO2-Ta2O5 and BaO-TiO2-Nb2O5 systems. The structures are built of corner-sharing slabs of the rutile structure; successive members are generated by adding 2TiO2 to the slab thickness of the previous member. The series crystallizes in space group Cmcm (No. 63), with members exhibiting similar a-, b-dimensions (∼6.6, ∼8.9 Å; respectively), and c-dimensions that linearly increase (by ∼4.4 Å per member) from 20.8 Å for n=3 to 47.1 Å for n=9.