In-situ Specific Heat Measurements and Order Disorder Phase Transition Studies of Ammonia Borane, Ammonium Borohydride and C60

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We request 4 days on HRPD to perform combined specific heat and neutron powder diffraction measurements of C60 and the molecular hydrogen storage materials, ammonia borane and ammonium borohydride. We are currently developing a heat capacity measurement capability for the ISIS cryostats and wish to commission the apparatus with an initial investigation of the well-studied orientational glass transition in C60 (as a benchmark) followed by measurements on ammonia borane and ammonium borohydride. The in-situ specific heat measurement not only provides a definitive determination of phase transition temperatures but also enforces significant constraints on the crystal structures. Heating is in constant delta Q steps rather than constant delta T enabling the most detailed analyses of the temperature dependence of crystal structures - this will be of general benefit to the ISIS user community.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079546
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079546
Provenance
Creator Dr Martin Jones; Professor Bill David; Dr Richard Ibberson; Dr Sam Callear
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
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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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-08-04T07:56:19Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-08-05T05:46:14Z