Detailed characterisation of metastable phase fractions in ZrW2O8

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Cubic alpha-ZrW2O8 is the classic example of a material exhibiting the unusual property of negative thermal expansion (NTE). Despite this effect having been discovered 20 years ago, it is not well understood. NTE is widely thought to arise due to correlated libration of large rigid structures, but the details are far from clear. Recent theoretical work has concentrated on determining which phonon modes contribute most to NTE. We have already obtained inelastic neutron scattering data in an attempt to test these calculations. However, we discovered that an unknown fraction of our sample contains the metastable orthorhombic gamma phase of ZrW2O8, which displays much weaker NTE. We wish to characterise the phase fractions in our samples, which will allow us to tell if our INS data can be easily analysed. We will also heat-treat the samples in-situ to recover phase-pure alpha ZrW2O8

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82353215
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82353215
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Creator Dr Toby Perring; Dr David Voneshen; Dr Russell Ewings; Dr Silvia Capelli; Dr Keith Refson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-10-13T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-17T09:00:00Z