“…9,10 After that, Arroyoy de Dompablo performed a computational study on the stability and electronic properties of oxygen vacancies in MNb 2 O 6 (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu); he found that the oxygen vacancy formation induces (a) a narrowing of the band gap and (b) an electronic density redistribution leading to the reduction of Nb 5+ to lower oxidation states. 11 Additionally, Mansurova supplemented the absence of the thermodynamic properties of MnNb 2 O 6 , 12 and Husson performed Raman study on MnNb 2 O 6 and a theory calculation about the vibration modes. 13,14 At ambient condition, the columbite MnNb 2 O 6 crystallizes in a derivative of the a-PbO 2 -type, in which the oxygen atoms assume a distorted HCP configuration and the cations occupy one-half of the available octahedral interstices.…”