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Title:
Amorphous silica-like carbon dioxide
Authors:
Santoro, Mario; Gorelli, Federico A.; Bini, Roberto; Ruocco, Giancarlo; Scandolo, Sandro; Crichton, Wilson A.
Affiliation:
AA(LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy and INFM, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy), AB(LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy and INFM, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy), AC(LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy and INFM, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy), AD(CRS-SOFT-INFM-CNR, c/o Università di Roma "La Sapienza", I-00185 Roma, Italy), AE(The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and INFM/Democritos National Simulation Center, 34014 Trieste, Italy), AF(European Synchrotron Research Facility, BP 220, F38043 Grenoble, France)
Publication:
Nature, Volume 441, Issue 7095, pp. 857-860 (2006). (Nature Homepage)
Publication Date:
06/2006
Origin:
NATURE
DOI:
10.1038/nature04879
Bibliographic Code:
2006Natur.441..857S

Abstract

Among the group IV elements, only carbon forms stable double bonds with oxygen at ambient conditions. At variance with silica and germania, the non-molecular single-bonded crystalline form of carbon dioxide, phase V, only exists at high pressure. The amorphous forms of silica (a-SiO2) and germania (a-GeO2) are well known at ambient conditions; however, the amorphous, non-molecular form of CO2 has so far been described only as a result of first-principles simulations. Here we report the synthesis of an amorphous, silica-like form of carbon dioxide, a-CO2, which we call `a-carbonia'. The compression of the molecular phase III of CO2 between 40 and 48GPa at room temperature initiated the transformation to the non-molecular amorphous phase. Infrared spectra measured at temperatures up to 680K show the progressive formation of C-O single bonds and the simultaneous disappearance of all molecular signatures. Furthermore, state-of-the-art Raman and synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements on temperature-quenched samples confirm the amorphous character of the material. Comparison with vibrational and diffraction data for a-SiO2 and a-GeO2, as well as with the structure factor calculated for the a-CO2 sample obtained by first-principles molecular dynamics, shows that a-CO2 is structurally homologous to the other group IV dioxide glasses. We therefore conclude that the class of archetypal network-forming disordered systems, including a-SiO2, a-GeO2 and water, must be extended to include a-CO2.
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