High‐Pressure Behavior and Phase Stability of Al₅BO₉, a Mullite‐Type Ceramic Material

Abstract

Phase stability, elastic behavior, and pressure-induced structural evolution of synthetic boron-mullite Al 5 BO 9 (a = 5.6780 (7), b = 15.035(6), and c =7.698(3) A, space group Cmc2 1 , Z = 4) were investigated up to 25.6(1) GPa by in situ single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction with a diamond anvil cell (DAC) under hydrostatic conditions. No evidence of phase transition was observed up to 21.7(1) GPa. At 25.6(1) GPa, the refined unit-cell parameters deviated significantly from the compressional trend, and the diffraction peaks appeared broader than at lower pressure. At 26.7(1) GPa, the diffraction pattern was not indexable, suggesting amorphization of the material or a phase transition to a high-pressure polymorph. Fitting the P-V data up to 21.7(1) GPa with a second-order Birch-Murnaghan Equation-of-State, we obtained a bulk modulus K T0 = 164(1) GPa. The axial compressibilities, here described as linearized bulk moduli, are as follows: K T0(a) = 244(9), K T0(b) = 120(4), and K T0(c) = 166(11) GPa (K T0(a) :K T0(b) : K T0(c) = 2.03:1:1.38). The structure refinements allowed a description of the main deformation mechanisms in response to the applied pressure. The stiffer crystallographic direction appears to be controlled by the infinite chains of edge-sharing octahedra running along [100], making the structure less compressible along the a-axis than along the band c-axis.

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