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High-pressure behavior and structural transition of beryl-type johnkoivulaite, Cs(Be2B)Mg2Si6O18

  • G. Diego Gatta ORCID logo , Martin Ende , Sofija Miloš , Nicola Rotiroti , Aaron C. Palke and Ronald Miletich
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From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 109 Issue 1

Abstract

The beryl-group mineral johnkoivulaite, Cs(Be2B)Mg2Si6O18, was compressed hydrostatically in a diamond-anvil cell up to 10.2 GPa. In situ Raman spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography revealed a P6/mcc-to-P3c1 (second-order) phase transition on isothermal compression at the critical transition pressure Pc = 4.13 ± 0.07 GPa. The elastic parameters determined for the volume elasticity of the two polymorphs correspond to a Birch-Murnaghan equation of state with K0 = 148 ± 2 GPa and K ′ = 0 for P < Pc and K0 = 75.5 ± 0.9 GPa with K ′ = 4 for P > Pc. The low-P polymorph shows anomalously linear compression behavior, as reported for several other beryl-derived framework structures. The high-P polymorph, which was found to follow a a ′ = a ⋅ 3 , c ′ = c superstructure according to P3c1, is almost twice as compressible as its low-P form. This is unique for any beryl-derived structure and can be attributed to the high degree of freedom for atomic displacements in the superstructure. The reduced symmetry can also be understood as the effect of the driving mechanism of the transformation. The extra-framework Cs channel components counteract any lateral deformation of the channels parallel to [0001] within the microporous framework and, similar to pezzottaite, are responsible for maintaining the trigonal/hexagonal lattice metrics.

Keywords: Beryl-type structure; johnkoivulaite; high pressure; structural transition; second-order phase transition; superstructure; Microporous Materials: Crystal-chemistry; Properties, and; Utilizations
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Acknowledgments and funding

We are grateful to Andreas Wagner (IfMK, University of Vienna) for all the effort in the sample preparation. G. Bromiley, an anonymous reviewer and the Technical Editor Team are warmly thanked for the revision of the manuscript. We thank University of Vienna for financial support within the scope of the grants BE532003 and IP532022 and the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR) through the project “PRIN2017—Mineral reactivity, a key to understand large-scale processes” (2017L83S77).

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Received: 2022-12-13
Accepted: 2023-02-04
Published Online: 2023-12-31
Published in Print: 2024-01-29

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Keywords for this article
Beryl-type structure; johnkoivulaite; high pressure; structural transition; second-order phase transition; superstructure; Microporous Materials: Crystal-chemistry; Properties, and; Utilizations

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