2008
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155715
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Structural Diversity of Sodium

Abstract: Sodium exhibits a pronounced minimum of the melting temperature at approximately 118 gigapascals and 300 kelvin. Using single-crystal high-pressure diffraction techniques, we found that the minimum of the sodium melting curve is associated with a concentration of seven different crystalline phases. Slight changes in pressure and/or temperature induce transitions between numerous structural modifications, several of which are highly complex. The complexity of the phase behavior above 100 gigapascals suggests ex… Show more

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“…Single-crystal structural refinement is necessary [192] but successful examples of growth and preservation of several µm-size single crystals above 100 GPa are extremely rare [79,193]. With the developments of micro-beam technology using SR, the minimal size needed for single-crystal diffraction has been reduced to sub-µm.…”
Section: Hp Multiple Grain Xrdmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Single-crystal structural refinement is necessary [192] but successful examples of growth and preservation of several µm-size single crystals above 100 GPa are extremely rare [79,193]. With the developments of micro-beam technology using SR, the minimal size needed for single-crystal diffraction has been reduced to sub-µm.…”
Section: Hp Multiple Grain Xrdmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Light elements in this regime tend to show structural diversity, [29][30][31] low-frequency vibrational modes 22,32 , and low melting temperatures. 30,31 This is the consequence of proton zero point energy becoming the important energy scale because of a decline of the intramolecular bonding (e.g., Refs. 22,31 ).…”
Section: (B)]mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mössbauer, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, as well as resistivity, X-ray diffraction and inelastic scattering measurements [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. In particular, single-crystal X-ray diffraction of samples loaded in DACs provide the most reliable data to determine the equation of state and structural changes of materials at elevated pressures [9,10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%