Direct density determination of low- and high-density glassy polyamorphs following a liquid-liquid phase transition in Y2O3-Al2O3 supercooled liquids

MCMILLAN, Paul F. and WILDING, Martin (2008). Direct density determination of low- and high-density glassy polyamorphs following a liquid-liquid phase transition in Y2O3-Al2O3 supercooled liquids. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 354 (10-11), 1015-1025.

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Abstract

Evidence has been presented for a density-driven phase transition occurring between supercooled liquids in the system Y2O3–Al2O3. The high- and low-density liquids were quenched to metastably coexisting glasses. Chemical analysis showed the compositions of the two glasses to be identical, and it was inferred that they differed in their densities and entropies. The entropy difference has been verified by calorimetry. Here, we confirm that the chemical compositions of the glassy materials derived from the high- and low-temperature liquids are identical. We present a direct density determination of the two glasses using sink-float techniques. The measured densities are 3.72(3) g/cm3 for the glass derived from the high-temperature liquid (i.e., the high-density amorphous or HDA polyamorph), and 3.58(1) g/cm3 for the low-temperature (low-density, LDA) polyamorph.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Materials and Engineering Research Institute > Engineering Research
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts > Department of Engineering and Mathematics
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2007.08.011
Page Range:	1015-1025
Depositing User:	Martin Wilding
Date Deposited:	03 Jul 2018 13:29
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 11:45
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/21497

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