Pressure induced nanoparticle phase behavior, property, and applications

F Bai, K Bian, X Huang, Z Wang, H Fan - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticle (NP) high pressure behavior has been extensively studied over the years. In
this review, we summarize recent progress on the studies of pressure induced NP phase …

Pressure-induced amorphization and polyamorphism: Inorganic and biochemical systems

D Machon, F Meersman, MC Wilding, M Wilson… - Progress in Materials …, 2014 - Elsevier
Pressure-induced amorphization (PIA) is a phenomenon that involves an abrupt transition
between a crystalline material and an amorphous solid through application of pressure at …

Enhanced Electron Transport in Nb-Doped TiO2 Nanoparticles via Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions

X Lü, W Yang, Z Quan, T Lin, L Bai… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Anatase TiO2 is one of the most important energy materials but suffers from poor electrical
conductivity. Nb doping has been considered as an effective way to improve its performance …

Effects of size and shape on the specific heat, melting entropy and enthalpy of nanomaterials

M Singh, S Lara, S Tlali - Journal of Taibah University for Science, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
A simple theory is proposed to study the size-and shape-dependent specific heat, melting
entropy and enthalpy of nanomaterials. The particle size and shape are demonstrated to …

Size-Dependent Amorphization of Nanoscale at High Pressure

L Wang, W Yang, Y Ding, Y Ren, S Xiao, B Liu… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
Y 2 O 3 with particle sizes ranging from 5 nm to 1 μ m were studied at high pressure using x-
ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy techniques. Nanometer-sized Y 2 O 3 particles are …

Plastic strain and grain size effect on high-pressure phase transformations in nanostructured TiO2 ceramics

H Razavi-Khosroshahi, K Edalati, M Arita, Z Horita… - Scripta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Anatase TiO 2 was severely deformed using high-pressure torsion and the effect of plastic
strain and grain size on phase transformations was investigated. A high-pressure TiO 2-II …

Amorphous nanoparticles—Experiments and computer simulations

V Van Hoang, D Ganguli - Physics reports, 2012 - Elsevier
The data obtained by both experiments and computer simulations concerning the
amorphous nanoparticles for decades including methods of synthesis, characterization …

Comparative study on structural, electronic, optical and mechanical properties of normal and high pressure phases titanium dioxide using DFT

N Dharmale, S Chaudhury… - Materials Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a Self-consistent Orthogonalized linear combination of atomic orbitals
(OLCAO) technique with a generalized gradient approximation such as Perdew–Burke …

Unusual Compression Behavior of Anatase Nanocrystals

V Swamy, AY Kuznetsov, LS Dubrovinsky, A Kurnosov… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
The size-dependent stiffness variations in nanocrystalline anatase, a leading material for
applications in photovoltaics, photocatalysis, photoelectrochromics, sensors, and optical …

Amorphization in nanoparticles

L Piot, S Le Floch, T Cornier, S Daniele… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticles have more propensities for amorphization than their bulk counterparts,
opening the opportunity to achieve the amorphous states in well-known poor glass-former …