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Yu Shu1, Yoshio Kono2, Itaru Ohira2,3
1High Pressure Collaborative Access Team, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States.
Abstract:
We have experimentally studied the effect of compression on the structure of liquid lithium (Li) by multiangle energy dispersive X-ray diffraction in a large-volume cupped-Drickamer-Toroidal cell. The structure factors, s(q), of liquid Li have been successfully determined under an isothermal compression at 600 ± 30 K and at pressures up to 11.5 GPa. The first peak position in s(q) is found to increase with increasing pressure and is showing an obvious slope change starting at ∼7.5 GPa. The slope change is interpreted as a structural change from bcc-like to fcc-like local ordering in liquid Li. At pressures above 8.7 GPa, the liquid Li becomes predominantly fcc-like up to the highest pressure of 11.5 GPa in this study. The observed structural changes in liquid Li are consistent with the recently determined melting curve of Li.
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