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Observation of a Plastic Crystal in Water-Ammonia Mixtures under High Pressure and Temperature

Zhang, H.
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Datchi, F.
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Andriambariarijaona, L.
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February 27, 2023
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Solid mixtures of ammonia and water, the so-called ammonia hydrates, are thought to be major components of solar and extra-solar icy planets. We present here a thorough characterization of the recently reported high pressure (P)-temperature (T) phase VII of ammonia monohydrate (AMH) using Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) experiments in the ranges 4-10 GPa, 450-600 K. Our results show that AMH-VII exhibits common structural features with the disordered ionico-molecular alloy (DIMA) phase, stable above 7.5 GPa at 300 K: both present a substitutional disorder of water and ammonia over the sites of a body-centered cubic lattice and are partially ionic. The two phases however markedly differ in their hydrogen dynamics, and QENS measurements show that AMH-VII is characterized by free molecular rotations around the lattice positions which are quenched in the DIMA phase. AMH-VII is thus a peculiar crystalline solid in that it combines three types of disorder: substitutional, compositional, and rotational.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00092
Web of Science ID

WOS:000939515300001

Author(s)
Zhang, H.
Datchi, F.
Andriambariarijaona, L.
Rescigno, M.
Bove, L. E.  
Klotz, S.
Ninet, S.
Date Issued

2023-02-27

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Start page

2301

End page

2307

Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical

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Chemistry

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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Materials Science

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Physics

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equation-of-state

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neutron-scattering

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raman-spectrum

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ice-vii

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x-ray

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hydrogen

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dynamics

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planets

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March 27, 2023
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