Phase Transition Study of CaB6 under High Pressure

2013 ◽  
Vol 705 ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
Jia Wang ◽  
Gang Peng ◽  
Bao Jia Wu

Phase transition of CaB6 sample under high pressure was studied by in situ electrical conductivity measurements and synchrotron X-ray diffraction up to 26GPa. Three anomalies in conductivity change were found respectively at 3.7, 12.4 and 21.9GPa. X-ray diffraction reveals that CaB6 transforms from Pm3m to orthogonal structure at 12.32GPa and hence the abnormal conductivity change at 12.4GPa can be attributed to the structural phase transition. The other two anomalies were considered as pressure-induced electronic phase transition in the pressure range of our measurements.

Author(s):  
Rebecca Scatena ◽  
Michał Andrzejewski ◽  
Roger D Johnson ◽  
Piero Macchi

Through in-situ, high-pressure x-ray diffraction experiments we have shown that the homoleptic perovskite-like coordination polymer [(CH3)2NH2]Cu(HCOO)3 undergoes a pressure-induced orbital reordering phase transition above 5.20 GPa. This transition is distinct...


2017 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 666-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Pakhomova ◽  
Leyla Ismailova ◽  
Elena Bykova ◽  
Maxim Bykov ◽  
Tiziana Boffa Ballaran ◽  
...  

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruilian Tang ◽  
Jiuhua Chen ◽  
Qiaoshi Zeng ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Xue Liang ◽  
...  

Goethite is a major iron-bearing sedimentary mineral on Earth. In this study, we conducted in situ high-pressure x-ray diffraction, Raman, and electrical impedance spectroscopy measurements of goethite using a diamond anvil cell (DAC) at room temperature and high pressures up to 32 GPa. We observed feature changes in both the Raman spectra and electrical resistance at about 5 and 11 GPa. However, the x-ray diffraction patterns show no structural phase transition in the entire pressure range of the study. The derived pressure-volume (P-V) data show a smooth compression curve with no clear evidence of any second-order phase transition. Fitting the volumetric data to the second-order Birch–Murnaghan equation of state yields V0 = 138.9 ± 0.5 Å3 and K0 = 126 ± 5 GPa.


2020 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 103173
Author(s):  
D.M. Dattelbaum ◽  
E.D. Emmons ◽  
A.M. Covington ◽  
L.L. Stevens ◽  
N. Velisavljevic ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojiao Liu ◽  
Adam A. L. Michalchuk ◽  
Biswajit Bhattacharya ◽  
Nobuhiro Yasuda ◽  
Franziska Emmerling ◽  
...  

AbstractSingle crystals which exhibit mechanical flexibility are promising materials for advanced technological applications. Before such materials can be used, a detailed understanding of the mechanisms of bending is needed. Using single crystal X-ray diffraction and microfocus Raman spectroscopy, we study in atomic detail the high-pressure response of the plastically flexible coordination polymer [Zn(μ-Cl)2(3,5-dichloropyridine)2]n (1). Contradictory to three-point bending, quasi-hydrostatic compression of (1) is completely reversible, even following compression to over 9 GPa. A structural phase transition is observed at ca. 5 GPa. DFT calculations show this transition to result from the pressure-induced softening of low-frequency vibrations. This phase transition is not observed during three-point-bending. Microfocus synchrotron X-ray diffraction revealed that bending yields significant mosaicity, as opposed to compression. Hence, our studies indicate of overall disparate mechanical responses of bulk flexibility and quasi-hydrostatic compression within the same crystal lattice. We suspect this to be a general feature of plastically bendable materials.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1640
Author(s):  
Ran Liu ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Quan-Jun Li ◽  
Bing-Bing Liu

An in situ high-pressure X-ray diffraction study was performed on Ag2S nanosheets, with an average lateral size of 29 nm and a relatively thin thickness. Based on the experimental data, we demonstrated that under high pressure, the samples experienced two different high-pressure structural phase transitions up to 29.4 GPa: from monoclinic P21/n structure (phase I, α-Ag2S) to orthorhombic P212121 structure (phase II) at 8.9 GPa and then to monoclinic P21/n structure (phase III) at 12.4 GPa. The critical phase transition pressures for phase II and phase III are approximately 2–3 GPa higher than that of 30 nm Ag2S nanoparticles and bulk materials. Additionally, phase III was stable up to the highest pressure of 29.4 GPa. Bulk moduli of Ag2S nanosheets were obtained as 73(6) GPa for phase I and 141(4) GPa for phase III, which indicate that the samples are more difficult to compress than their bulk counterparts and some other reported Ag2S nanoparticles. Further analysis suggested that the nanosize effect arising from the smaller thickness of Ag2S nanosheets restricts the relative position slip of the interlayer atoms during the compression, which leads to the enhancing of phase stabilities and the elevating of bulk moduli.


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