The D2O ice VI to ice XV hydrogen ordering phase transition at ambient pressure is investigated in detail with neutron diffraction. The lattice constants are found to be sensitive indicators for hydrogen ordering. The a and b lattice constants contract whereas a pronounced expansion in c is found upon hydrogen ordering. Overall, the hydrogen ordering transition goes along with a small increase in volume, which explains why the phase transition is more difficult to observe upon cooling under pressure. Slow-cooling ice VI at 1.4 GPa gives essentially fully hydrogen-disordered ice VI. Consistent with earlier studies, the ice XV obtained after slow-cooling at ambient pressure is best described with P-1 space group symmetry. Using a new modelling approach, we achieve the atomistic reconstruction of a supercell structure that is consistent with the average partially ordered structure derived from Rietveld refinements. This shows that C-type networks are most prevalent in ice XV, but other structural motifs outside of the classifications of the fully hydrogen-ordered networks are identified as well. The recently proposed Pmmn structural model for ice XV is found to be incompatible with our diffraction data, and we argue that only structural models that are capable of describing full hydrogen order should be used.
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28 November 2016
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November 22 2016
Detailed crystallographic analysis of the ice VI to ice XV hydrogen ordering phase transition
Christoph G. Salzmann;
Christoph G. Salzmann
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1Department of Chemistry,
University College London
, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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Ben Slater;
Ben Slater
1Department of Chemistry,
University College London
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Paolo G. Radaelli;
Paolo G. Radaelli
2Department of Physics,
University of Oxford
, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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John L. Finney;
John L. Finney
3Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University College London
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Jacob J. Shephard;
Jacob J. Shephard
1Department of Chemistry,
University College London
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Martin Rosillo-Lopez;
Martin Rosillo-Lopez
1Department of Chemistry,
University College London
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James Hindley
James Hindley
1Department of Chemistry,
University College London
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E-mail: c.salzmann@ucl.ac.uk
J. Chem. Phys. 145, 204501 (2016)
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Received:
July 29 2016
Accepted:
October 19 2016
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Christoph G. Salzmann, Ben Slater, Paolo G. Radaelli, John L. Finney, Jacob J. Shephard, Martin Rosillo-Lopez, James Hindley; Detailed crystallographic analysis of the ice VI to ice XV hydrogen ordering phase transition. J. Chem. Phys. 28 November 2016; 145 (20): 204501. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4967167
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