Six-fold-coordinated phosphorus by oxygen in AlPO4 quartz homeotype under high pressure
- 29 July 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Materials
- Vol. 6 (9), 698-702
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1966
Abstract
AlPO4 belongs to the berlinite quartz homeotype family, which has been the subject of intense high-pressure research triggered by the supposed existence of reversible pressure-induced amorphization. X-ray diffraction experiments, complemented with ab initio calculations, demonstrate the existence of two high-pressure crystalline polymorphs and show that AlPO4 shares the same two-stage densification mechanism as silica. In the first step, a compact hexagonal sublattice of oxygen atoms is formed. In the second step, the cations redistribute in the interstices giving rise to a monoclinic distorted CaCl2 phase. The most outstanding feature of the phase is that phosphorous becomes six-fold coordinated by oxygen, adopting a configuration unknown so far in solid-state science. This finding opens possibilities in the high-pressure chemistry of phosphorus. The close relationship of AlPO4 with silica suggests the existence of completely unexplored families of compounds analogous to those of six-fold-coordinated silicates but based on PO6.Keywords
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