Atomic structure of amorphous alumina Al2O3

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Solid alumina Al2O3 has many industrial applications. Recently it was found that porous anodic alumina film formed by anodizing aluminium in an appropriate acidic/alkaline solution is a typical self-ordered nanoporous material extensively used for developing functional nanodevices. The atomic structure of porous anodic alumina remains unclear. Using high-energy x-ray diffraction we have found that the structure factors of liquid and porous alumina are quite similar except for significant small-angle scattering in the latter case. Small x-ray weighting for O-O correlations is the main problem to generate reliable structural model for amorphous alumina from atomic to nanoscale. Consequently, we are asking one (1) day on NIMROD to measure 5 samples of mesoporous amorphous alumina.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84424588
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84424588
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Creator Dr Shinji Kohara; Professor Eugene Bychkov; Dr Tom Headen; Dr Tristan Youngs; Dr Mariana Milochova
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-02-27T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-02-28T09:00:00Z