P4Se3 polyamorphic glasses synthesised at high-pressure

DOI

PxSe1-x glasses cover almost entire composition range from pure Se to P0.84Se0.16. In addition, red phosphorus is usually also amorphous. The P4Se3 cage compound, situated in the gap between the two glass-forming regions cannot be obtained as a glass at normal conditions of synthesis from the melt. Nevertheless, we have synthesised the P4Se3 glasses at high pressure and temperature. Depending on synthesis conditions, glasses of different colour: from dark yellow to red, brown and finally black can be obtained. All these polyamorphic glasses seem to have a mixed molecular/network structure. The suggested neutron diffraction measurements at ISIS will allow the precise direct structural information to be obtained. The neutron diffraction results will be combined with our high-energy x-ray diffraction measurements, Raman and 31P NMR experiments as well as with EPSR and RMC modelling.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24083801
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24083801
Provenance
Creator Dr Alex Hannon; Professor Eugene Bychkov
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-04-07T08:51:10Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-06-03T08:45:34Z