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Liquid polymorphism is an intriguing phenomenon which has been found in a fewsingle-component systems, the most famous being water. By supercooling liquidTe to more than 130 K below its melting point and performing simultaneoussmall-angle and wide-angle X-ray scattering measurements, we observe clearmaxima in its thermodynamic response functions around 615 K, suggesting thepossible existence of liquid polymorphism. A close look at the underlyingstructural evolution shows the development of intermediate-range order uponcooling, most strongly around the thermodynamic maxima, which we attribute tobond-orientational ordering. The striking similarities between our results andthose of water, despite the lack of hydrogen-bonding and tetrahedrality intellurium, indicate that water-like anomalies may be a general phenomenon amongliquid systems with competing bond- and density-ordering.

Structural changes across thermodynamic maxima in supercooled liquid tellurium: a water-like scenario