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From Liquid to Solid: Residual Disorder in the Local Environment of Oxygen‐Coordinated Zirconium
Author(s) -
Landron C.,
Douy A.,
Bazin D.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.2221840202
Subject(s) - zirconium , amorphous solid , materials science , randomness , oxygen atom , absorption (acoustics) , local structure , order and disorder , coordination number , oxygen , crystallography , chemistry , molecule , ion , metallurgy , condensed matter physics , physics , organic chemistry , composite material , mathematics , statistics
X‐ray absorption is used as a chemically specific structural probe to investigate the short‐range order around zirconium cations in various crystallized, amorphous, or vitreous systems containing oxygencoordinated zirconium in order to connect it to the disorder in the environment of this cation in the liquid solution from which they are produced. The comparison of the various analyses gives detailed information on the local structure around the zirconium atoms. The type and the level of randomness is discussed. The radial distribution functions of the various samples with disordered structure are compared with the corresponding crystalline functions. The effects of disorder on the first two coordination shells are derived for these samples.