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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2114424119
关键词
post-postperovskite; super-Earth mineralogy; order-disorder transition
资金
- NSF-Earth Sciences [EAR-1634415]
- Carnegie Endowment
- GeoSoilEnviroCARS (Sector 13), US Department of Energy (DOE), Geosciences [DE-FG02-94ER14466]
- DOE-National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Experimental Sciences
- APS, a DOE Office of Science User Facility [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
In this study, the high-pressure behavior of magnesium germanate was investigated using experimental and computational methods. A highly coordinated and intrinsically disordered phase was observed, which may have important implications for the interior mineralogy of large rocky extrasolar planets.
Mg2GeO4 is important as an analog for the ultrahigh-pressure behavior of Mg2SiO4, a major component of planetary interiors. In this study, we have investigated magnesium germanate to 275 GPa and over 2,000 K using a laser-heated diamond anvil cell combined with in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory (DFT) computations. The experimental results are consistent with the formation of a phase with disordered Mg and Ge, in which germanium adopts eightfold coordination with oxygen: the cubic, Th3P4-type structure. DFT computations suggest partial Mg-Ge order, resulting in a tetragonal I (4) over bar 2d structure indistinguishable from I (4) over bar 2d Th3P4 in our experiments. If applicable to silicates, the formation of this highly coordinated and intrinsically disordered phase may have important implications for the interior mineralogy of large, rocky extrasolar planets.
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