Materials Data on UO4 by Materials Project
UO4 crystallizes in the orthorhombic Cmce space group. The structure is two-dimensional and consists of two UO4 sheets oriented in the (0, 1, 0) direction. U is bonded to eight O atoms to form distorted edge-sharing UO8 hexagonal bipyramids. There are two shorter (1.82 Å) and six longer (2.31 Å) U–O bond lengths. There are two inequivalent O sites. In the first O site, O is bonded in a trigonal planar geometry to three equivalent U atoms. In the second O site, O is bonded in a single-bond geometry to one U atom.