Pressure-induced amorphization and a possible polyamorphism transition in nanosized TiO2:: An x-ray absorption spectroscopy study

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Flank, A. -M. [1 ]
Lagarde, P. [1 ]
Itie, J. -P. [1 ]
Polian, A. [2 ]
Hearne, G. R. [3 ]
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[1] SOLEIL Synchrotron, F-91192 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[2] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, IMPMC, Phys Milieux Denses, F-75015 Paris, France
[3] Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Phys & DST NRF CoE Strong Mat, Johannesburg, South Africa
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2008年 / 77卷 / 22期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.77.224112
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The phenomenon of grain-size dependent pressure-induced amorphization (PIA) in TiO(2) nanomaterials has been evidenced by several experiments in recent years. This has stemmed mainly from x-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman studies of ultrafine grained anatase. Until now there is no experimental evidence of the length scale of disorder nor is there a clear picture of the amorphous structures, specifically in the case of pressure amorphised anatase-TiO(2) starting material. The unresolved issues of the structural details and atomic-scale picture of the high-density amorphous (HDA) phase have now been addressed in an x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) pressure study at the Ti K-edge. The local environment of the cation, to within a few nearest-neighbor shells, has been monitored up to similar to 30 GPa where the HDA phase is stabilized. In this phase the titanium atom is surrounded by 3 +/- 0.5 oxygens at 1.89 angstrom and 3 +/- 0.5 oxygens at 2.07 angstrom. The XAS results of this study suggest that a precursor ordered structural phase, different to that of anatase, is prevalent before amorphization occurs. The nature of this high-pressure stabilized precursor to amorphization likely depends on the starting experimental conditions at ambient pressure. In some cases this precursor has been identified as the columbite (alpha-PbO(2)-type) crystalline structure perhaps with only limited range order. Samples of this type appear to evidence a "memory effect" in that after cycling into the HDA phase (up to 30 GPa) where complete structural disorder prevails, this alpha-PbO(2) structural intermediate is reestablished in a limited pressure range of the decompression cycle. It is also found that a new structure is stabilized in all cases of samples decompressed from the HDA phase to ambient conditions, characterized by fivefold coordinated Ti (2 +/- 0.5 oxygens at 1.84 angstrom and 2.5 +/- 0.5 oxygens at 2.06 angstrom) and is therefore structurally distinguishable from the HDA phase. These conceptual pictures are derived from the pressure dependence of both the extended x-ray-absorption fine structure (EXAFS) and the preedge parts of the absorption spectra.
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