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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 106, Issue 35, Pages 14763-14767Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907729106
Keywords
hydrogen; phase diagram; silane
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- Department of Energy through the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science [DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- National Science Foundation [EAR-0810255]
- NASA [NNX08AL2TG]
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Understanding the behavior of hydrogen-rich systems at extreme conditions has significance to both condensed matter physics, where it may provide insight into the metallization and superconductivity of element one, and also to applied research areas, where it can provide guidance for designing improved hydrogen storage materials for transportation applications. Here we report the high-pressure study of the SiH4-H-2 binary system up to 6.5 GPa at 300 K in a diamond anvil cell. Raman measurements indicate significant intermolecular interactions between H-2 and SiH4. We found that the H-2 vibron frequency is softened by the presence of SiH4 by as much as 40 cm(-1) for the fluid with 50 mol% H-2 compared with pure H-2 fluid at the same pressures. In contrast, the Si-H stretching modes of SiH4 shift to higher frequency in the mixed fluid compared with pure SiH4. Pressure-induced solidification of the H-2-SiH4 fluid shows a binary eutectic point at 72(+/- 2) mol% H-2 and 6.1(+/- 0.1) GPa, above which the fluid crystallizes into a mixture of two nearly end-member solids. Neither solid has a pure end-member composition, with the silane-rich solid containing 0.5-1.5 mol% H-2 and the hydrogen-rich solid containing 0.5-1 mol% SiH4. These two crystalline phases can be regarded as doped hydrogen-dominant compounds. We were able to superpressurize the sample by 0.2-0.4 GPa above the eutectic before complete crystallization, indicating extended metastability.
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