Materials under extreme conditions: recent trends and future prospects

Materials Under Extreme Conditions: Recent Trends and Future Prospects analyzes the chemical transformation and decomposition of materials exposed to extreme conditions, such as high temperature, high pressure, hostile chemical environments, high radiation fields, high vacuum, high magnetic and electric fields, wear and abrasion related to chemical bonding, special crystallographic features, and microstructures. The materials covered in this work encompass oxides, non-oxides, alloys and intermetallics, glasses, and carbon-based materials. The book is written for researchers in academia and industry, and technologists in chemical engineering, materials chemistry, chemistry, and condensed matter physics.

Front Cover; Materials Under Extreme Conditions; Materials Under Extreme Conditions: Recent Trends and Future ProspectsEdited ByA. K. TyagiS. BanerjeeBhabha Atomic Research Ce ... ; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; About the Editors; Preface; 1 -- MATERIAL STUDIES AT HIGH PRESSURE; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL METHODS TO STUDY MATERIALS AT HIGH PRESSURE; 2.1 DIAMOND ANVIL CELLS; 2.2 PREPARATION OF DIAMOND ANVIL CELLS FOR EXPERIMENTS; 3. DIAGNOSTICS; 3.1 HIGH-PRESSURE DIFFRACTION; 3.2 HYDROSTATIC AND NONHYDROSTATIC STRESSES AND RADIAL X-RAY DIFFRACTION.

3.3 HIGH-PRESSURE SPECTROSCOPY AND INELASTIC SCATTERING3.4 HIGH-PRESSURE TRANSPORT PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS; 3.5 HIGH-PRESSURE 3D TOMOGRAPHY; 4. SOME CASE STUDIES; 4.1 MECHANISM OF PHASE TRANSITIONS UNDER HIGH PRESSURE; 4.1.1 Nanozircon-Structured Chromates; 4.1.2 Alpha Cristobalite; 4.1.3 Scandium Tungstate; 4.2 PRESSURE-INDUCED AMORPHIZATION; 4.2.1 Berlinite; 4.2.2 Silicon; 4.2.3 Yttrium Chromate and Holomium Chromate; 4.2.4 Reduced Graphene Oxide; 4.3 NEGATIVE THERMAL EXPANSION AND AMORPHIZATION; 4.3.1 Scandium Tungstate; 4.3.2 Ag3[Co(CN)6]; 4.3.3 Zn(CN)2.

4.4 RECRYSTALLIZATION OF AMORPHOUS PHASE4.4.1…