Mercury sulphide dimorphism in liquids and glasses

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A waste majority of crystals exists in several polymorphic forms in different domains of the P,T-diagram. Liquids and glasses also exhibit polyamorphism and the question remains whether the liquid-liquid transformation appears to be a first-order phase transition. The mercury thioarsenate glasses seem to show a different phenomenon: an instantaneous mercury sulphide dimorphism. Our Raman spectroscopy measurements and DFT modelling first exhibit a hybrid Hg-S chain/As-S pyramidal network. Nevertheless, the preliminary high-energy x-ray diffraction measurements suggest also the presence of Hg-S tetrahedra. The proposed ND experiments on HgS-As2S3 liquids and glasses using GEM or SANDALS together with complementary HE-XRD experiments and EPSR/RMS modelling will greatly advance our understanding of these important functional materials and the exciting phenomenon of polyamorphism.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58449163
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58449163
Provenance
Creator Dr Mariana Milochova; Dr mohammad kassem; Professor Eugene Bychkov; Dr Alex Hannon
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
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 2015-04-02T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-04-06T04:21:29Z