High pressure single crystal X-ray diffraction study on α-quartz

Author(s):  
J. Kim-Zajonz ◽  
S. Werner ◽  
H. Schulz

AbstractSingle crystal X-ray diffraction experiments onVolumina of the unit cell were determined to 13.1 GPa, by combining the data with data taken from the literature; the bulk modulus and pressure derivative calculate to 38.7(3) GPa and 5.2(1) respectively according to a Birch-Murnaghan equation of state.Intensity data were collected at 10.9(1), 12.0(1), 12.1(1), 12.6(1) and 13.1(1) GPa. From the five intensity data sets, one was collected using synchrotron radiation at HASYLAB/DESY and the other four using a conventional X-ray tube. Results show that the SiOIn addition to the five intensity data sets collected, X-ray diffraction experiments were carried out up to 19.3 GPa in order to address the question of when the structure undergoes amorphization. It was observed that up to 19.3 GPa, no pressure-induced amorphization takes place. This result is in agreement with studies carried out on powder quartz and theoretical studies.

Crystals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Comodi ◽  
Azzurra Zucchini ◽  
Tonci Balić-Žunić ◽  
Michael Hanfland ◽  
Ines Collings

High-pressure single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction data for galenobismutite, PbBi2S4 collected up to 20.9 GPa, were fitted by a third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state, as suggested by a FE-fE plot, yielding V0 = 697.4(8) Å3, K0 = 51(1) GPa and K’ = 5.0(2). The axial moduli were M0a = 115(7) GPa and Ma’ = 28(2) for the a axis, M0b = 162(3) GPa and Mb’ = 8(3) for the b axis, M0c = 142(8) GPa and Mc’ = 26(2) for the c axis, with refined values of a0, b0, c0 equal to 11.791(7) Å, 14.540(6) Å 4.076(3) Å, respectively, and a ratio equal to M0a:M0b:M0c = 1.55:1:1.79. The main structural changes on compression were the M2 and M3 (occupied by Bi, Pb) movements toward the centers of their respective trigonal prism bodies and M3 changes towards CN8. The M1 site, occupied solely by Bi, regularizes the octahedral form with CN6. The eccentricities of all cation sites decreased with compression testifying for a decrease in stereochemical expression of lone electron pairs. Galenobismutite is isostructural with calcium ferrite CaFe2O4, the suggested high pressure structure can host Na and Al in the lower mantle. The study indicates that pressure enables the incorporation of other elements in this structure, increasing its potential significance for mantle mineralogy.


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 976
Author(s):  
Paola Comodi ◽  
Maximiliano Fastelli ◽  
Giacomo Criniti ◽  
Konstantin Glazyrin ◽  
Azzurra Zucchini

High-pressure synchrotron X-ray diffraction was carried out on a single crystal of mascagnite, compressed in a diamond anvil cell. The sample maintained its crystal structure up to ~18 GPa. The volume–pressure data were fitted by a third-order Birch–Murnaghan equation of state (BM3-EOS) yielding K0 = 20.4(7) GPa, K’0 = 6.1(2), and V0 = 499(1) Å3, as suggested by the F-f plot. The axial compressibilities, calculated with BM3-EOS, were K0a = 35(3), K’0a = 7.7(7), K0b = 10(3), K’0b = 7(1), K0c = 25(1), and K’0c = 4.3(2) The axial moduli measured using a BM2-EOS and fixing K’0 equal to 4, were K0a = 52(2), K0b = 20 (1), and K0c = 29.6(4) GPa, and the anisotropic ratio of K0a:K0b:K0c = 1:0.4:0.5. The evolution of crystal lattice and geometrical parameters indicated no phase transition until 17.6 GPa. Sulphate polyhedra were incompressible and the density increase of 30% compared to investigated pressure should be attributed to the reduction of weaker hydrogen bonds. In contrast, some of them, directed along [100], were very short at room temperature, below 2 Å, and showed a very low compressibility. This configuration explains the anisotropic compressional behavior and the lowest compressibility of the a axis.


CrystEngComm ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (32) ◽  
pp. 7397-7400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Ridout ◽  
Michael R. Probert

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction has been used to elucidate the structure of two polymorphs of isopropyl alcohol, one grown through in situ cryo-crystallisation, the other through high-pressure crystallisation.


2013 ◽  
Vol 77 (7) ◽  
pp. 3007-3017 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Nestola ◽  
S. J. Mills ◽  
B. Periotto ◽  
L. Scandolo

AbstractA single crystal of natrojarosite, NaFe3(SO4)2(OH)6, was investigated by single-crystal X-ray diffraction at high-pressure conditions (up to 8.8 GPa) using a diamond-anvil cell. The unit-cell parameters were determined at 11 different pressures and no indications of a phase transition were found up to the maximum pressure reached. The volume and axial moduli were fitted to a third-order Birch–Murnaghan equation-of-state which gave the following values: V0 = 769.6(2) Å3, KT0 = 50.6(9) GPa, K' = 9.9(4); a = 7.3172(6) Å, KT0 = 104(2), K' = 7.6(9); c = 16.5965(20) Å, KT0 = 24.6(4) and K' = 7.1(2). The crystal structure of natrojarosite was refined at seven different pressures up to 8.779(11) GPa [a = 7.3170(4), c = 16.5955(5) Å and V = 769.46(9) Å3 in Rm at 0.00010(1) GPa and a = 7.1594(8), c = 15.6003(17) Å and V = 692.49(8) Å3 at 8.779(11) GPa]. The structural analysis shows that the 12-fold Na polyhedron accommodates most of the deformation by a large volume decrease (14%) and strong polyhedral distortion (63%). Our results indicate that natrojarosite has the most compressible structure of the supergroup studied so far, and has a very strong axial anisotropy.


2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (18) ◽  
pp. 2491-2497 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. ZHU ◽  
L. C. CHEN ◽  
R. C. YU ◽  
F. Y. LI ◽  
J. LIU ◽  
...  

In situ high pressure energy dispersive X-ray diffraction measurements on layered perovskite-like manganate Ca 3 Mn 2 O 7 under pressures up to 35 GPa have been performed by using diamond anvil cell with synchrotron radiation. The results show that the structure of layered perovskite-like manganate Ca 3 Mn 2 O 7 is unstable under pressure due to the easy compression of NaCl-type blocks. The structure of Ca 3 Mn 2 O 7 underwent two phase transitions under pressures in the range of 0~35 GPa. One was at about 1.3 GPa with the crystal structure changing from tetragonal to orthorhombic. The other was at about 9.5 GPa with the crystal structure changing from orthorhombic back to another tetragonal.


Author(s):  
Innokenty Kantor ◽  
Alexander Kurnosov ◽  
Catherine McCammon ◽  
Leonid Dubrovinsky

AbstractA high-pressure quasi-single crystal X-ray diffraction study of a synthetic iron oxide Fe


2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urszula Anna Budniak ◽  
Paulina Maria Dominiak

Isoguanine, an analogue of guanine, is of intrinsic interest as a noncanonical nucleobase. The crystal structure of isoguaninium chloride (systematic name: 6-amino-2-oxo-1H,7H-purin-3-ium chloride), C5H6N5O+·Cl−, has been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Structure analysis was supported by electrostatic interaction energy (E es) calculations based on charge density reconstructed with the UBDB databank. In the structure, two kinds of molecular tapes are observed, one parallel to (010) and the other parallel to (50\overline{4}). The tapes are formed by dimers of isoguaninium cations interacting with chloride anions. E es analysis indicates that cations in one kind of tape are oriented so as to minimize repulsive electrostatic interactions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 103 (10) ◽  
pp. 1568-1574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Lai ◽  
Feng Zhu ◽  
Jiachao Liu ◽  
Dongzhou Zhang ◽  
Yi Hu ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 055111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedetta Periotto ◽  
Fabrizio Nestola ◽  
Tonci Balic-Zunic ◽  
Ross J. Angel ◽  
Ronald Miletich ◽  
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