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Gorman MG, Coleman AL, Briggs R, McWilliams RS, McGonegle D, Bolme CA, Gleason AE, Galtier E, Lee HJ, Granados E, Śliwa M, Sanloup C, Rothman S, Fratanduono DE, Smith RF, Collins GW, Eggert JH, Wark JS, McMahon MI. Femtosecond diffraction studies of solid and liquid phase changes in shock-compressed bismuth. Sci Rep 2018; 8:16927. [PMID: 30446720 PMCID: PMC6240068 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35260-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 10/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Bismuth has long been a prototypical system for investigating phase transformations and melting at high pressure. Despite decades of experimental study, however, the lattice-level response of Bi to rapid (shock) compression and the relationship between structures occurring dynamically and those observed during slow (static) compression, are still not clearly understood. We have determined the structural response of shock-compressed Bi to 68 GPa using femtosecond X-ray diffraction, thereby revealing the phase transition sequence and equation-of-state in unprecedented detail for the first time. We show that shocked-Bi exhibits a marked departure from equilibrium behavior - the incommensurate Bi-III phase is not observed, but rather a new metastable phase, and the Bi-V phase is formed at significantly lower pressures compared to static compression studies. We also directly measure structural changes in a shocked liquid for the first time. These observations reveal new behaviour in the solid and liquid phases of a shocked material and give important insights into the validity of comparing static and dynamic datasets.
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- M G Gorman
- SUPA, School of Physics & Astronomy, and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94500, USA.
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- SUPA, School of Physics & Astronomy, and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
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- SUPA, School of Physics & Astronomy, and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94500, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics & Astronomy, and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
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- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK
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- Shock and Detonation Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA
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- Shock and Detonation Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS-INSU, Institut des Sciences de la Terre Paris, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, United Kingdom
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94500, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94500, USA
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- Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94500, USA
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- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK
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- SUPA, School of Physics & Astronomy, and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
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Sanloup C, Cochain B, de Grouchy C, Glazyrin K, Konôpkova Z, Liermann HP, Kantor I, Torchio R, Mathon O, Irifune T. Behaviour of niobium during early Earth's differentiation: insights from its local structure and oxidation state in silicate melts at high pressure. J Phys Condens Matter 2018; 30:084004. [PMID: 29328058 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aaa73e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Niobium (Nb) is one of the key trace elements used to understand Earth's formation and differentiation, and is remarkable for its deficiency relative to tantalum in terrestrial rocks compared to the building chondritic blocks. In this context, the local environment of Nb in silica-rich melts and glasses is studied by in situ x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) at high pressure (P) up to 9.3 GPa and 1350 K using resistive-heating diamond-anvil cells. Nb is slightly less oxidized in the melt (intermediate valence between +4 and +5) than in the glass (+5), an effect evidenced from the shift of the Nb-edge towards lower energies. Changes in the pre-edge features are also observed between melt and glass states, consistently with the observed changes in oxidation state although likely enhanced by temperature (T) effects. The oxidation state of Nb is not affected by pressure neither in the molten nor glassy states, and remains constant in the investigated P-range. The Nb-O coordination number is constant and equal to [Formula: see text] below 5 GPa, and only progressively increases up to [Formula: see text] at 9.3 GPa, the maximum P investigated. If these findings were to similarly apply to basaltic melts, that would rule out the hypothesis of Nb/Ta fractionation during early silicate Earth's differentiation, thus reinforcing the alternative hypothesis of fractionation during core formation on reduced pre-planetary bodies.
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- C Sanloup
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS-INSU, Institut des Sciences de la Terre Paris, ISTeP UMR 7193, F-75005 Paris, France
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Fei Y, Van Orman J, Li J, van Westrenen W, Sanloup C, Minarik W, Hirose K, Komabayashi T, Walter M, Funakoshi K. Experimentally determined postspinel transformation boundary in Mg2SiO4using MgO as an internal pressure standard and its geophysical implications. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1029/2003jb002562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Y. Fei
- Geophysical Laboratory; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Washington DC USA
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- Geophysical Laboratory; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Washington DC USA
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- Geophysical Laboratory; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Washington DC USA
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- Geophysical Laboratory; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Washington DC USA
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- Geophysical Laboratory; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Washington DC USA
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- Geophysical Laboratory; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Washington DC USA
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Tokyo Institute of Technology; Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Tokyo Institute of Technology; Tokyo Japan
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- Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior; Okayama University; Misasa Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, SPring-8; Hyogo Japan
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Sanloup C, Guyot F, Gillet P, Fei Y. Physical properties of liquid Fe alloys at high pressure and their bearings on the nature of metallic planetary cores. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1029/2001jb000808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- C. Sanloup
- Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon; Lyon France
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- Laboratoire de Minéralogie-Cristallographie Physique and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris; Paris France
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- Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon; Lyon France
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- Geophysical Laboratory and Center for High Pressure Research; Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C.; USA
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