Anomalous behavior and phase transformation of <i>α</i>-GaOOH nanocrystals under static compression<xref rid="cpb_26_10_106402_fn1" ref-type="fn">*</xref> <fn id="cpb_26_10_106402_fn1"> <label>*</label> <p>Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50772043, 51172087, and 11074089) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB808200)</p> </fn>

Anomalous behavior and phase transformation of α-GaOOH nanocrystals under static compression* *

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50772043, 51172087, and 11074089) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB808200)

Zhang Zhao¹, Cui Hang¹, Yang Da-Peng^{2, †}, Zhang Jian^{1, ‡}, Tang Shun-Xi¹, Wu Si¹, Cui Qi-Liang¹

(color online) (a) Pressure-dependent normalized unit-cell parameters up to 31.0 GPa. (b) Plot of the normalized pressure F against the Eulerian strain f, with a kink at 14.6 GPa and a sudden change at 25.8 GPa. The solid lines show the linear fittings of the data. (c) Pressure-dependent unit-cell volume, fitted by using second order Birch–Murnaghan equations of state. The data below 14.6 GPa, between 16.1 GPa and 23.8 GPa, and above 25.8 GPa, are fitted separately.