Alternating sequence of ring and chain structures in sulphur at high pressure and temperature

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 550-552

  Crapanzano, Laura ^a   Crichton, Wilson A ^a   Monaco, Giulio ^a   Bellissent, Robert ^b   Mezouar, Mohamed ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CELL PARAMETERS; CYCLOHEXASULFUR; HIGH-PRESSURE PHASES; METASTABLE ALLOTROPES;

SULFUR;

SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PRESSURE; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 21844434260     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1417     Document Type: Article

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