From short to medium range order in glasses and melts by diffraction and Raman spectroscopy

JWE Drewitt, L Hennet… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The structure of glasses and the melts from which they are formed is intrinsically disordered,
making their structural characterization difficult. Whilst the structure of solid minerals can be …

Liquid structure under extreme conditions: high-pressure x-ray diffraction studies

JWE Drewitt - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Under extreme conditions of high pressure and temperature, liquids can undergo substantial
structural transformations as their atoms rearrange to minimise energy within a more …

Percolation transitions in compressed SiO2 glasses

A Hasmy, S Ispas, B Hehlen - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Amorphous–amorphous transformations under pressure are generally explained by
changes in the local structure from low-to higher-fold coordinated polyhedra,,–. However, as …

Structural Evolution of Glass with Si Coordination Number Greater than 6

Y Kono, Y Shu, C Kenney-Benson, Y Wang, G Shen - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Pair distribution function measurement of SiO 2 glass up to 120 GPa reveals changes in the
first-, second-, and third-neighbor distances associated with an increase in Si coordination …

Non‐isotropic contraction and expansion of samples in diamond anvil cells: Implications for thermal conductivity at the core‐mantle boundary

SS Lobanov, ZM Geballe - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The thermal conductivities of mantle and core materials have a major impact on planetary
evolution, but their experimental determination requires precise knowledge of sample …

Metastable silica high pressure polymorphs as structural proxies of deep Earth silicate melts

E Bykova, M Bykov, A Černok, J Tidholm… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Modelling of processes involving deep Earth liquids requires information on their structures
and compression mechanisms. However, knowledge of the local structures of silicates and …

In situ X-ray diffraction of silicate liquids and glasses under dynamic and static compression to megabar pressures

G Morard, JA Hernandez… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Properties of liquid silicates under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions are
critical for modeling the dynamics and solidification mechanisms of the magma ocean in the …

Oxygen Quadclusters in Glass above Megabar Pressures up to 160 GPa Revealed by X-Ray Raman Scattering

SK Lee, YH Kim, YS Yi, P Chow, Y **ao, C Ji… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
As oxygen may occupy a major volume of oxides, a densification of amorphous oxides
under extreme compression is dominated by reorganization of oxygen during compression …

Structural evolution of basaltic melts in the deep Earth: Insights from high‐pressure sound velocity of glass

C Trubowitz, M Murakami, S Petitgirard… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The densification mechanisms of silicate melts under high pressure are of key interest in
understanding the evolution of the early Earth and its present‐day internal structure. Here …

Structural dynamics of basaltic melt at mantle conditions with implications for magma oceans and superplumes

A Majumdar, M Wu, Y Pan, T Iitaka, JS Tse - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Transport properties like diffusivity and viscosity of melts dictated the evolution of the Earth's
early magma oceans. We report the structure, density, diffusivity, electrical conductivity and …