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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 136, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3695212
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- National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research [0854618]
- American Chemical Society [49207-ND10]
- US Department of Homeland Security [2008-ST-061-ED0001]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [GRANTS:13921359] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [0854618] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We describe high-pressure kinetic studies of the formation and phase transitions of methane hydrates (MH) under dynamic loading conditions, using a dynamic-diamond anvil cell (d-DAC) coupled with time-resolved confocal micro-Raman spectroscopy and high-speed microphotography. The time-resolved spectra and dynamic pressure responses exhibit profound compression-rate dependences associated with both the formation and the solid-solid phase transitions of MH-I to II and MH-II to III. Under dynamic loading conditions, MH forms only from super-compressed water and liquid methane in a narrow pressure range between 0.9 and 1.6 GPa at the one-dimensional (1D) growth rate of 42 mu m/s. MH-I to II phase transition occurs at the onset of water solidification 0.9 GPa, following a diffusion controlled mechanism. We estimated the activation volume to be -109 +/- 29 angstrom(3), primarily associated with relatively slow methane diffusion which follows the rapid interfacial reconstruction, or martensitic displacements of atomic positions and hydrogen bonds, of 5(12)6(2) water cages in MH-I to 4(3)5(12)63 cages in MH-II. MH-II to III transition, on the other hand, occurs over a broad pressure range between 1.5 and 2.2 GPa, following a reconstructive mechanism from super-compressed MH-II clathrates to a broken ice-filled viscoelastic solid of MH-III. It is found that the profound dynamic effects observed in the MH formation and phase transitions are primarily governed by the stability of water and ice phases at the relevant pressures. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3695212]
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