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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 87, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.024201
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- US Department of Energy [DE-FG02-09ER46650]
- US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- EPSRC [EP/J009741/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J009741/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The structure of liquid alumina at a temperature similar to 2400 K near its melting point was measured using neutron and high-energy x-ray diffraction by employing containerless aerodynamic-levitation and laser-heating techniques. The measured diffraction patterns were compared to those calculated from molecular dynamics simulations using a variety of pair potentials, and the model found to be in best agreement with experiments was refined using the reverse Monte Carlo method. The resultant model shows that the melt is composed predominantly of AlO4 and AlO5 units, in the approximate ratio of 2:1, with only minor fractions of AlO3 and AlO6 units. The majority of Al-O-Al connections involve corner-sharing polyhedra (83%), although a significant minority involve edge-sharing polyhedra (16%), predominantly between AlO5 and either AlO5 or AlO4 units. Most of the oxygen atoms (81%) are shared among three or more polyhedra, and the majority of these oxygen atoms are triply shared among one or two AlO4 units and two or one AlO5 units, consistent with the abundance of these polyhedra in the melt and their fairly uniform spatial distribution.
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