High-Pressure Structural Integrity and Structural Transformations of Glass-derived Nanocomposites: A Review

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2008

Publication Title

Journal of physics and chemistry of solids

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

69

Issue

9

First page number:

2268

Last page number:

2273

Abstract

A review of our recent and ongoing extensive high-pressure synchrotron X-ray diffraction and high-pressure optical spectroscopy studies of nanocrystalline composites is presented. These heterophased, nano-architectured composites consist of amorphous matrices with dispersed nanocrystals or quantum dots. We show how besides compositional variations, additional tuning of these glass-derived nanocomposites can be done by exploiting elevated pressure. We examine stability and pressure-driven phase transitions occurring in nanocrystals as well as structural changes occurring in the glass matrix. Finally, we discuss the influence of the glass matrix of a composite on the structural transformations occurring in the embedded nanocrystals.

Controlled Subject

High pressure chemistry; Nanocomposites (Materials); Raman spectroscopy

Disciplines

Analytical Chemistry | Biological and Chemical Physics | Chemistry | Materials Chemistry | Physical Chemistry

Language

English

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