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

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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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hal-04015749 , version 1 (06-03-2023)

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Haiwa Zhang, Frédéric Datchi, L. Andriambariarijaona, M. Rescigno, L E Bove, et al.. Observation of a Plastic Crystal in Water–Ammonia Mixtures under High Pressure and Temperature. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023, pp.2301-2307. ⟨10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00092⟩. ⟨hal-04015749⟩
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