scholarly journals Ultrafast phase transitions in metastable water near liquid interfaces

2009 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Link ◽  
Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez ◽  
Eugen Lugovoj ◽  
Yaxing Liu ◽  
Katrin Siefermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Liquid Interfaces ◽  
Metastable Water

scholarly journals Sculpted grain boundaries in soft crystals

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. eaax9112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Li ◽  
José A. Martínez-González ◽  
Orlando Guzmán ◽  
Xuedan Ma ◽  
Kangho Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Soft Materials ◽  
Lattice Orientation ◽  
Liquid Interfaces ◽  
Crystalline Materials ◽  
Precise Control ◽  
Adsorption Processes

Engineering the grain boundaries of crystalline materials represents an enduring challenge, particularly in the case of soft materials. Grain boundaries, however, can provide preferential sites for chemical reactions, adsorption processes, nucleation of phase transitions, and mechanical transformations. In this work, “soft heteroepitaxy” is used to exert precise control over the lattice orientation of three-dimensional liquid crystalline soft crystals, thereby granting the ability to sculpt the grain boundaries between them. Since these soft crystals are liquid-like in nature, the heteroepitaxy approach introduced here provides a clear strategy to accurately mold liquid-liquid interfaces in structured liquids with a hitherto unavailable level of precision.

Electron Microscopy of Graphite Intercalation Compounds

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 544-545
Author(s):  
G. Timp ◽  
L. Salamanca-Riba ◽  
L.W. Hobbs ◽  
G. Dresselhaus ◽  
M.S. Dresselhaus
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Domain Wall ◽  
Intercalation Compounds ◽  
Lattice Plane ◽  
Wall Model ◽  
Graphite Intercalation Compounds ◽  
Fundamental Symmetry ◽  
Graphite Intercalation

Electron microscopy can be used to study structures and phase transitions occurring in graphite intercalations compounds. The fundamental symmetry in graphite intercalation compounds is the staging periodicity whereby each intercalate layer is separated by n graphite layers, n denoting the stage index. The currently accepted model for intercalation proposed by Herold and Daumas assumes that the sample contains equal amounts of intercalant between any two graphite layers and staged regions are confined to domains. Specifically, in a stage 2 compound, the Herold-Daumas domain wall model predicts a pleated lattice plane structure.

Multiple phase transitions investigated by high-speed TEM

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 550-551
Author(s):  
Oleg Bostanjoglo ◽  
Peter Thomsen-Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Short Exposure ◽  
Semiconductor Film ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Short Exposure Time ◽  
Multiple Phase ◽  
Model Substance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Electron Image

Thin GexTe1-x (x = 0.15-0.8) were studied as a model substance of a composite semiconductor film, in addition being of interest for optical storage material. Two complementary modes of time-resolved TEM were used to trace the phase transitions, induced by an attached Q-switched (50 ns FWHM) and frequency doubled (532 nm) Nd:YAG laser. The laser radiation was focused onto the specimen within the TEM to a 20 μm spot (FWHM). Discrete intermediate states were visualized by short-exposure time doubleframe imaging /1,2/. The full history of a transformation was gained by tracking the electron image intensity with photomultiplier and storage oscilloscopes (space/time resolution 100 nm/3 ns) /3/. In order to avoid radiation damage by the probing electron beam to detector and specimen, the beam is pulsed in this continuous mode of time-resolved TEM,too.Short events ( <2 μs) are followed by illuminating with an extended single electron pulse (fig. 1c)

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