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Lascaris E, Marchese F, Gaspar N. Crystallization and the liquid-liquid critical point in nonbonded modified-WAC models. J Chem Phys 2024; 161:044503. [PMID: 39037140 DOI: 10.1063/5.0215601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 07/03/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024] Open
Abstract
For decades, it has been known that Liquid-Liquid Critical Points (LLCPs) can exist in one-component liquids, yet a comprehensive understanding of the conditions under which they arise remains elusive. To better comprehend the possible interplay between the LLCP and the crystalline phase, we conduct molecular dynamics simulations using the nonbonded family of modified-WAC (mWAC) models, which are known to exhibit a LLCP for certain parameter values. By comparing different versions of the mWAC model-those featuring a LLCP and those lacking one-we identify several key differences between the models relating to crystallization. Those models that do have a LLCP are found to have multiple stable crystalline phases, one of them being a solid-state ionic conductor similar to superionic ice. Moreover, we find that for models that do not have a LLCP, the liquid becomes a glass at a larger range of temperatures, possibly preventing the occurrence of a LLCP. Further studies are required to determine if these results are general or model-specific.
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Affiliation(s)
- Erik Lascaris
- Department of Chemistry & Physical Sciences, Pace University, New York, New York 10038, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Physical Sciences, Pace University, New York, New York 10038, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Physical Sciences, Pace University, New York, New York 10038, USA
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Shen J, Lu Z, Wang JQ, Lan S, Zhang F, Hirata A, Chen MW, Wang XL, Wen P, Sun YH, Bai HY, Wang WH. Metallic Glacial Glass Formation by a First-Order Liquid-Liquid Transition. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:6718-6723. [PMID: 32649204 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
The glacial phase, with an apparently glassy structure, can be formed by a first-order transition in some molecular-glass-forming supercooled liquids. Here we report the formation of metallic glacial glass (MGG) from the precursor of a rare-earth-element-based metallic glass via the first-order phase transition in its supercooled liquid. The excellent glass-forming ability of the precursor ensures the MGG to be successfully fabricated into bulk samples (with a minimal critical diameter exceeding 3 mm). Distinct enthalpy, structure, and property changes are detected between MGG and metallic glass, and the reversed "melting-like" transition from the glacial phase to the supercooled liquid is observed in fast differential scanning calorimetry. The kinetics of MGG formation is reflected by a continuous heating transformation diagram, with the phase transition pathways measured at different heating rates taken into account. The finding supports the scenario of liquid-liquid transition in metallic-glass-forming liquids.
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- J Shen
- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Mathematics for Advanced Materials - Open Innovation Laboratory (MathAM-OIL), AIST, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China
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- Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
- Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- WPI- Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- WPI- Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518057, China
- Center for Advanced Structural Materials, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
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Walton F, Bolling J, Farrell A, MacEwen J, Syme CD, Jiménez MG, Senn HM, Wilson C, Cinque G, Wynne K. Polyamorphism Mirrors Polymorphism in the Liquid-Liquid Transition of a Molecular Liquid. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:7591-7597. [PMID: 32249557 PMCID: PMC7181258 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c01712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
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Liquid–liquid
transitions between two amorphous phases in
a single-component liquid have courted controversy. All known examples
of liquid–liquid transitions in molecular liquids have been
observed in the supercooled state, suggesting an intimate connection
with vitrification and locally favored structures inhibiting crystallization.
However, there is precious little information about the local molecular
packing in supercooled liquids, meaning that the order parameter of
the transition is still unknown. Here, we investigate the liquid–liquid
transition in triphenyl phosphite and show that it is caused by the
competition between liquid structures that mirror two crystal polymorphs.
The liquid–liquid transition is found to be between a geometrically
frustrated liquid and a dynamically frustrated glass. These results
indicate a general link between polymorphism and polyamorphism and
will lead to a much greater understanding of the physical basis of
liquid–liquid transitions and allow the systematic discovery
of other examples.
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- Finlay Walton
- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K
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Role of hydrodynamics in liquid-liquid transition of a single-component substance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:4471-4479. [PMID: 32051252 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1911544117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Liquid-liquid transition (LLT) is an unconventional transition between two liquid states in a single-component system. This phenomenon has recently attracted considerable attention not only because of its counterintuitive nature but also since it is crucial for our fundamental understanding of the liquid state. However, its physical understanding has remained elusive, particularly of the critical dynamics and phase-ordering kinetics. So far, the hydrodynamic degree of freedom, which is the most intrinsic kinetic feature of liquids, has been neglected in its theoretical description. Here we develop a Ginzburg-Landau-type kinetic theory of LLT taking it into account, based on a two-order parameter model. We examine slow critical fluctuations of the nonconserved order parameter coupled to the hydrodynamic degree of freedom in equilibrium. We also study the nonequilibrium process of LLT. We show both analytically and numerically that domain growth becomes faster (slower), depending upon the density decrease (increase) upon the transition, as a consequence of hydrodynamic flow induced by the density change. The coupling between nonconserved order parameter and hydrodynamic interaction results in anomalous domain growth in both nucleation-growth-type and spinodal-decomposition-type LLT. Our study highlights the characteristic features of hydrodynamic fluctuations and phase ordering during LLT under complex interplay among conserved and nonconserved order parameters and the hydrodynamic transport intrinsic to the liquid state.
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Link between molecular mobility and order parameter during liquid-liquid transition of a molecular liquid. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:7176-7185. [PMID: 30944219 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1822016116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Liquid-liquid transition (LLT) is the transformation of one liquid to another via first-order phase transition. For example, LLT in a molecular liquid, triphenyl phosphite, is macroscopically the transformation from liquid I in a supercooled state to liquid II in a glassy state. Reflecting the transformation from the liquid to glassy state, the LLT is accompanied by considerable slowing down of overall molecular dynamics, but little is known about how this proceeds at a molecular level coupled with the evolution of the order parameter. We report such information by performing time-resolved simultaneous measurements of dielectric spectroscopy and phase contrast microscopy/Raman spectroscopy by using a dielectric cell with transparent electrodes. We find that the temporal change in molecular mobility crucially depends on whether LLT is nucleation growth type occurring in the metastable state or SD type occurring in the unstable state. Furthermore, our results suggest that the molecular mobility is controlled by the local order parameter: more specifically, the local activation energy of molecular rotation is controlled by the local fraction of locally favored structures formed in the liquid. Our study sheds light on the temporal change in the molecular dynamics during LLT and its link to the order parameter evolution.
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The reversibility and first-order nature of liquid-liquid transition in a molecular liquid. Nat Commun 2016; 7:13438. [PMID: 27841349 PMCID: PMC5114579 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 10/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Liquid–liquid transition is an intriguing phenomenon in which a liquid transforms into another liquid via the first-order transition. For molecular liquids, however, it always takes place in a supercooled liquid state metastable against crystallization, which has led to a number of serious debates concerning its origin: liquid–liquid transition versus unusual nano-crystal formation. Thus, there have so far been no single example free from such debates, to the best of our knowledge. Here we show experimental evidence that the transition is truly liquid–liquid transition and not nano-crystallization for a molecular liquid, triphenyl phosphite. We kinetically isolate the reverse liquid-liquid transition from glass transition and crystallization with a high heating rate of flash differential scanning calorimetry, and prove the reversibility and first-order nature of liquid–liquid transition. Our finding not only deepens our physical understanding of liquid–liquid transition but may also initiate a phase of its research from both fundamental and applications viewpoints. The nature of the phenomenon of so-called ‘liquid-liquid transitions' in molecular liquids is a long-standing debate. Here, the authors demonstrate the reversibility and first-order nature of the liquid-liquid transition in triphenyl phosphite via flash differential scanning calorimetry.
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Krivchikov AI, Andersson O. Thermal Conductivity of Triphenyl Phosphite’s Liquid, Glassy, and Glacial States. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:2845-53. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b00271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Alexander I. Krivchikov
- B. Verkin Institute
for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of NAS Ukraine, 47 Lenin Avenue, Kharkov 61103, Ukraine
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- Department
of Physics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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