High Pressure Synthesis and Crystal Chemistry of Metalloid-Rich Intermetallic Compounds

Prediction of superconducting iron–bismuth intermetallic compounds at high pressure

The synthesis of materials in high-pressure experiments has recently attracted increasing attention, especially since the discovery of record breaking superconducting temperatures in the sulfur-hydrogen and other hydrogen-rich systems. Commonly, the initial precursor in a high pressure experiment contains constituent elements that are known to form compounds at ambient conditions, however the d...

Synthesis, Crystal Chemistry and Magnetism of the Metal-rich Borides

Powder samples and single crystals of the boride phases MxRh7−xB3 (M = Cr, Mn, Ni; x≤ 1) have been synthesized from the elements using an arc-melting furnace under purified argon atmosphere in a water-cooled copper crucible. The new phases were characterized from single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction, as well as semi-quantitative EDX measurements. The obtained phases crystallize in the he...

Crystal Growth and Stoichiometry of Strongly Correlated Intermetallic Cerium Compounds

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF COMBUSTION SYNTHESIS OF ALUMINIDE INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS

Combustion synthesis is a special thermophysico-chemical process applied for production of intermetallic compounds. In the present work, a reaction–diffusion numerical model was developed to analyze the combustion synthesis of aluminide intermetallics by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis process. In order to verify the reliability of the numerical model, an experimental setup was desi...

HIGH-PRESSURE CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY AND AMORPHIZATION OF e-QUARTZ

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments on e-quartz at pressures to 15 GPa reveal structural instabilities that result in its gradual transition to an amorphous state. With increasing pressure the average Si-O distance ( ~ 1.61 + 0.01/~) and S i O 4 tetrahedral volume (,,~2.14 ___ 0.02.~ 3) remain constant. Compression of e-quartz results from a dramatic decrease in Si-O-Si angle and corre...