Subtle Changes in the Magnetic Nature of Metal-Ammonia Systems - A Test Muon Study

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We request two days on Emu to study the magnetic behaviour of the molecular metal, Li(NH3)4. We propose an experiment designed to answer an unresolved question regarding magnetic ordering in perhaps the figurehead compound in metal-ammonia research, the metallic molecular solid Li(NH3)4. This beautiful compound remains the lowest melting-point metal known, with the highly electronically conductive liquid phase solidifying only at a mere 88.8K, and undergoes a number of changes in its structure and conductivity as it is cooled. We wish to track the magnitude and nature of these changes using muon spectroscopy.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.49920421
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/49920421
Provenance
Creator Dr Stephen Cottrell; Dr Patrick Cullen; Dr Neal Skipper; Dr Christopher Howard; Dr Peter Baker; Professor Peter Edwards; Dr Andrew Seel
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Chemistry; Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-06-03T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-06-05T23:00:00Z