We provide detailed background, theoretical and practical, on the specific heat of minerals
and mixtures thereof,'astro-materials,'as well as background information on common …

Spontaneous strains for the alpha<--> beta transition in quartz were determined from lattice
parameter data collected by X-ray powder diffraction and neutron powder diffraction over the …

Wood chips ash coming from biomass heating plant is studied as an eco-friendly mineral
admixture in mortar mix design. The raw material was mechanically activated by milling in a …

Massive aligned carbon nanotubes hold great potential but also face significant
integration/assembly challenges for future beyond-silicon nanoelectronics. We report a …

Total neutron scattering measurements, analysed using a modification of the reverse Monte
Carlo modelling method to account for long-range crystallographic order, have been used to …

Quartz is the predominant silica polymorph in alkali-reactive aggregate materials. Being a
major constituent of the Earth's crust as well, quartz is stable under a broad range of …

Quartz constitutes a very useful material due to its variety of applications, highlighting solid-
state physics for material science with applications for devices and sensors, as piezoelectric …

This contribution provides a detailed in-situ account of transformation reactions during
calcination of a typical high-grade α-spodumene (α-LiAlSi 2 O 6) concentrate, a pre …

Relaxation times (T 1) and lineshapes were examined as a function of temperature through
the α-β transition for 29 Si in a single crystal of amethyst, and for 29 Si and 17 O in …

We have studied the complex decomposition mechanism of cubic γ-Mg (BH4) 2 (Ia 3̅ d, a=
15.7858 (1) Å) by in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction, temperature-programmed desorption …