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Thermal expansion of nanocrystalline and coarse-crystalline silver sulfide Ag$_2$S

A. I. Gusev^a, S. I. Sadovnikov^a, A. V. Chukin^b, A. A. Rempel<sup>ab

a</sup> Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg
^b Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg

Abstract: In situ studies of the thermal expansion of polymorphic phases of coarse-crystalline and nanocrystalline silver sulfide, namely, monoclinic acanthite $\alpha$-Ag$_2$S and cubic argentite $\beta$-Ag$_2$S, have been performed for the first time by high-temperature X-ray diffraction. The temperature dependences of the unit cell parameters of acanthite and argentite have been measured from temperatures in the range of 300–623 K, and the thermal expansion coefficients of acanthite and argentite have been determined. The observed difference between the thermal expansion coefficients of nano- and coarse-crystalline acanthite is shown to be due to a small size of nanocrystalline silver sulfide particles, which leads to an increase in the anharmonicity of atomic vibrations.

Keywords: Thermal Expansion Coefficient, Unit Cell Volume, Linear Thermal Expansion Coefficient, Diffraction Reflection, Thiocarbamide.

Received: 08.07.2015

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2016, 58:2, 251–257

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