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SUBMITTER: Aidhy DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4639808 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aidhy Dilpuneet S DS Sachan Ritesh R Zarkadoula Eva E Pakarinen Olli O Chisholm Matthew F MF Zhang Yanwen Y Weber William J WJ
Scientific reports 20151110
The structure and ion-conducting properties of the defect-fluorite ring structure formed around amorphous ion-tracks by swift heavy ion irradiation of Gd2Ti2O7 pyrochlore are investigated. High angle annular dark field imaging complemented with ion-track molecular dynamics simulations show that the atoms in the ring structure are disordered, and have relatively larger cation-cation interspacing than in the bulk pyrochlore, illustrating the presence of tensile strain in the ring region. Density f ...[more]