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Article

Oxidation of High Yield Strength Metals Tungsten and Rhenium in High-Pressure High-Temperature Experiments of Carbon Dioxide and Carbonates

by
Raquel Chuliá-Jordán
1,
David Santamaría-Pérez
1,*,
Tomás Marqueño
1,
Javier Ruiz-Fuertes
2 and
Dominik Daisenberger
3
1
Applied Physics Department - ICMUV - MALTA Consolider Team, University of Valencia, c/Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain
2
DCITIMAC- MALTA Consolider Team, University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain
3
Diamond Light Source, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0DE, UK
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Crystals 2019, 9(12), 676; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst9120676
Submission received: 24 November 2019 / Revised: 11 December 2019 / Accepted: 13 December 2019 / Published: 17 December 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pressure-Induced Phase Transformations)
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Abstract

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The laser-heating diamond-anvil cell technique enables direct investigations of materials under high pressures and temperatures, usually confining the samples with high yield strength W and Re gaskets. This work presents experimental data that evidences the chemical reactivity between these refractory metals and CO2 or carbonates at temperatures above 1300 °Ϲ and pressures above 6 GPa. Metal oxides and diamond are identified as reaction products. Recommendations to minimize non-desired chemical reactions in high-pressure high-temperature experiments are given.

1. Introduction

Extreme high-pressure high-temperature (HP–HT) conditions are commonly encountered in nature. A primary source for acquiring knowledge of the Earth’s interior is, for instance, generating similar pressure and temperature conditions in the laboratory, and studying how these conditions affect metals [1] or minerals [2,3]. A particular interesting problem is to unravel the fate of carbon in the deep mantle [2,4,5,6], for which HP–HT experiments involving carbon dioxide and carbonates need to be performed. However, the HP–HT chemistry of these compounds is largely unknown, which directly affects the proper design of such experiments.
High-pressure high-temperature physics and chemistry has greatly progressed in the last three decades, thanks to experimental developments. The diamond-anvil cell (DAC), for instance, has made possible to characterize in situ many materials at high pressure via spectroscopic and scattering techniques, due to the fact that diamond is transparent to many forms of electromagnetic radiation (visible, IR, X-ray) [2,7,8,9]. DACs are based on a simple design that consists of two opposed diamond anvils that compress a thin gasket which holds a tiny sample and a pressure transmitting medium. Experiments at pressures above 30 GPa require hard materials (rhenium, tungsten, diamond powder) with good mechanical properties to be used as gaskets [10,11]. Combined high-pressure high-temperature experiments are, however, less common, because they require the simultaneous use of cutting-edge techniques, such as DACs and resistive heaters, or high-power heating lasers, together with complementary characterization techniques [12].
In this context, new advances in static resistive-heated [13] and laser-heated diamond-anvil cells (LHDAC) technology [14], pyrometry and spectroradiometry diagnostic techniques [15], and the development of brighter X-ray sources [16] have extended the pressure–temperature regime accessible in HP-HT in situ studies, and allow giving new insights into materials’ behavior (reactivity, phase transformations, properties) at these conditions. These experiments try to mimic planets’ interiors, and can be therefore considered as windows to observe otherwise inaccessible parts of the Universe.
The thermodynamic stability of CO2 and carbonates at ambient conditions may be significantly altered at high pressures and temperatures in the presence of rhenium or tungsten metal of the gasket. Several studies of the interaction of CO2 with transition metal surfaces at low pressure are available in the literature [17,18]. Thus, for example, the overall CO2 dissociative chemisorption on the Re (0001) surface increases below 140 K due to long time residence, whereas at higher temperatures, desorption is the dominant process [18]. The kinetics of the oxidation of tungsten by CO2 at T > 2000 °C were also reported, and it was pointed out that the reactions of desorbed oxygen became important [19]. The dense CO2 environment in diamond-anvil cell experiments, together with high temperatures, that could help to overcome the barriers to chemically interact with the Re and W gaskets, may result in undesired reaction products, as reported elsewhere for the case of rhenium [20].
In this work we review previous results on the chemical reactivity of molecular CO2 in the presence of Re metal [21], providing new evidences of diamond formation, and show the occurrence of a redox reaction between tungsten metal and calcium silicate–carbonates under HP–HT conditions. Angle-dispersive powder X-ray diffractometry (XRD) data of in situ and recovered samples in contact with tungsten during compression and laser-heating (T > 1400 K) show the presence of scheelite-type calcium tungstate (after tilleyite decomposition and carbonate reduction). These results give an overview of the reactivity of these gasket materials at extreme conditions, and emphasize the need of meticulousness while preparing suitable sample chamber configurations to try to avoid non-desired chemical reactions in carbon dioxide and carbonates above that temperature.

2. Materials and Methods

High-pressure high-temperature X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements were performed using symmetric and Boehler–Almax diamond-anvil cells (DACs). The chemical interaction between tungsten and carbonates was observed while laser-heating natural silicate–carbonate samples [6,22,23]. Natural tilleyite mineral (specimen YPM MIN 041104, Yale Peabody Museum) from the Crestmore quarry was analyzed by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and only traces (<1 wt%) of Al and K were found apart the Ca, Si, C and O atoms present in the ideal Ca5(Si2O7)(CO3)2 formulae. HP–HT experiments of tilleyite were performed in a DAC with diamonds of 250 μm culet diameter, using a W gasket preindented to a thickness of 35 μm. A tilleyite sample contained within the W pressure chamber was heated using a high-power diode-pumped fiber laser with wavelength of 1.07 μm and a Cu disk as an internal heater, creating a 30 μm-diameter stable hotspot comparable in size with the heater. Copper was chosen as this heater material because of its known difficulty in forming carbonates [24] and silicates [25]. In this experiment, the pressure chamber was ~50 μm in diameter, and hot Cu diffused, forming a thin layer that covered the whole pressure chamber. Even though the hotspot was centered, the heat was conducted to the gasket (W)-sample (silicate–carbonate) boundary and a chemical reaction occurred. Here, we report the results of tilleyite compressed to 9 GPa, which already converted into post-tilleyite [6], and laser-heated above 1500 °C.
Experimental details of the HP–HT Re + CO2 measurements were already reported elsewhere [21]. In short, rhenium disks of 30 μm diameter and 5−12 μm thickness were placed at the center of a ~100 μm diameter hole of tungsten gasket. These metallic samples are good absorbers of the infrared radiation of the heating laser described above. High-purity CO2 was loaded in the DAC at room temperature using a gas loading apparatus. Pure SiO2 was used to thermally isolate the diamond anvils. Two runs were carried out: (1) 8 GPa–1300 °C and (2) 24 GPa–1400 °C. In this experiment, the W gasket was not in contact to Re heater, and consequently, no W oxidation was observed.
Pressures were measured before and after heating by the ruby fluorescence method [26]. We also used the equations of state of the metals, Cu [27] and Re [28], as secondary pressure gauges, with a pressure difference with respect to that of the ruby standard of less than 2%. Temperatures were measured fitting the Planck’s radiation function to the emission spectra (in the range 550–800 nm) assuming wavelength-independent emissivities [29].
Angle-dispersive X-ray diffraction data here presented were collected in two different synchrotron beamlines: GSECARS at the Advanced Photon Source for the Re+CO2 experiments, and I15 at the Diamond Light Source for silicate–carbonate heating experiments. At GSECARS, incident X-rays had a wavelength of 0.3344 Å and the beam was focused to ~3 × 3 μm2 spot. At the I15 beamline of the Diamond Light Source we used an incident monochromatic wavelength of 0.4246 Å focused to 10 × 10 μm2. No rotation of the sample was done during XRD pattern collection. Detectors calibration, correction of distortion and integration to conventional 2 θ-intensity data were carried out with the Dioptas software [30]. The indexing and refinement of the powder patterns were performed using the, Unitcell [31], Fullprof [32] and Powdercell [33] program packages.

3. Results and Discussion

Suggested gasket materials to reach tens of gigapascals or megabar pressures include high yield strength metals such as rhenium or tungsten.

3.1. W oxidation

Oxidation of tungsten produced by different routes has been widely studied in the past [34]. These studies concluded that elevated temperatures would enhance the oxidation rate through the formation of highly volatile tungsten oxides, the oxidation kinetics of this metal being quite complex. For instance, a large number of tungsten oxides and phases have been determined [34]. Tungsten metal, in spite of many attractive properties such as good HT strength and high electrical resistivity, easily oxidizes at ambient pressure.
This low resistance to oxidation was also patent while studying the crystallochemical behavior of natural calcium silicate–carbonate minerals at HP–HT conditions. We heated up the W gasket as described in the “Methods” section, and we characterized the heated area afterwards through XRD mapping. Tilleyite Ca5(Si2O7)(CO3)2 was compressed to 9 GPa and laser-heated above 1500 °C, and the XRD patterns of the recovered sample located close to the pressure chamber walls revealed that a chemical reaction had occurred (see Figure 1 and Table 1).
Note that the temperature at the reaction’s location was not measured, but it must be considerably lower than that at the center of the hotspot [35]. The most intense diffraction peaks correspond to scheelite-type CaWO4, but peaks corresponding to bcc-W (gasket), fcc-Cu (laser absorber), quartz-SiO2 [36], B1-type CaO and aragonite-CaCO3 are also visible.
These compounds are compatible with silicate–carbonate decomposition and a subsequent redox reaction involving tungsten and calcium carbonate. Then, the following sequence of reactions:
Decomposition: Ca5(Si2O7)(CO3)2 → 2·CaCO3 + 2·SiO2 + 3·CaO
Redox reaction: 2·W + 3·CaCO3 → 2·CaWO4 + CaO + 3·C
could eventually give rise to the oxidation of tungsten, from W0 to W+6, and the reduction of carbon, from C+4 to C0. Note, however, that there exists a previous HP–HT study carried out by Liu and Lin [37] where they reported the decomposition of tilleyite at 4 GPa into CaSiO3 wollastonite, Ca2SiO4 larnite and CaCO3 aragonite. Of these phases, only aragonite was found in our recovered sample, and for this reason, this decomposition path was not considered. Figure 1 shows the diffraction image with the trace of diamond formation ((111) reflection), which could not be discerned in the XRD integrated pattern. The chemical reactivity of calcium carbonate under reducing conditions was also reported at 5.5 GPa and 1350 °C when chemically interacted with iron metal, forming Ca-ferrites and graphite [38]. These redox reactions could take place through a previous decomposition of CaCO3 into CaO and CO2, or CaO, O2 and C, but the temperature values cannot be compared, since the latter decomposition was reported to occur at approximately 3200 °C between 9 and 21 GPa [39]. In fact, Chepurov et al. mentioned that they detected CaWO4 at the contact between CaCO3 and the W-foil used to minimize the contact of Fe with the Pt-ampoule in the multi-anvil HP–HT experiments [38]. It should be also stressed that, in the case at hand, the reaction between tilleyite and tungsten could alternatively occur as a one-step process with W acting as catalyst.

3.2. Re Oxidation

Oxidation of rhenium in oxygen/air occurs above 420 °C at ambient pressure, and takes place by the formation of volatile oxides, but information available on heterogeneous equilibria in the rhenium–oxygen system is not always consistent. Thus, in a previous work [40], the oxidation reaction has been examined at 427 °C with X-ray photoelectron and ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopies. ReO2, ReO3 and Re2O7 were found on the Re surface [40].
In the temperature range 600 – 1300 °C, Re2O7 was identified by X-ray examination as the only volatile [41] whereas, at higher temperatures (1500-1900 °C), ReO3 was the primary oxide present in the condensed vapor deposits [42]. When mixtures of Re metal and ReO3 in different gross compositions are heated up, a stable intermediary ReO2 phase is formed [43]. However, differences in the thermodynamic characteristics of sublimation, decomposition and disproportionation of these phases are significant [44]. The reasons for literature discrepancies could be the Re surface state and different oxidizing conditions. All in all, like tungsten, rhenium has a limited use as an HT structural material due to its low resistance to oxidation.
At high pressures (from 8 to 25 GPa), no Re reactivity has been reported with solid or fluid O2 up to 1000 °C [45]. In the presence of supercritical fluid H2O–O2 mixtures, however, Re undergoes a series of reactions to form perrhenic acid (HReO4) and its hydrates at pressures as low as 0.5 GPa and at room temperature [46]. From a practical perspective for high pressure research, it is important to know the potential chemical reactivity between the Re gasket and solid and fluid samples. Re + CO2 interaction at HP and HT was recently studied by our group. Our results demonstrate the existence of carbon dioxide reduction reaction in the presence of Re metal at high pressures (8 and 24 GPa) and high temperatures (above 1200 °C), obtaining orthorhombic β-ReO2 as high-pressure high-temperature reaction product (see Figure 2 and Table 2).
This compound, with Re(IV) oxidation state, is stable and solid at temperatures between 1250 and 1500 °C while compressed at 24 GPa, in comparison to that occurring in vacuum conditions, where ReO2 dissociates at 850-1050 °C into Re2O7(g) and metallic Re [42,47].
This rhenium oxide still exists at 50 GPa after heating above 1600 °C (see Figure 3 and Table 3), together with diamond. In fact, its stability field extends above 1 Mbar, as shown in a recent publication [48]. No Re2O7 or ReO3 were found during our experiments, β-ReO2 being recovered after pressure and temperature quenching [21].
From these results, we can infer that the following reaction is taking place: Re + CO2 → ReO2 + C(d). This is in agreement with the observation of (111) reflections of diamond in XRD patterns, as shown in the CCD image depicted in the inset of Figure 3. β-ReO2 was quenched both in temperature and in pressure, and recovered at ambient conditions. Thus, the existence of rhenium dioxide through such a wide P–T range illustrates the increasing thermal stability with pressure of this oxidation state IV phase to disproportionation to rhenium metal and higher oxidation state oxides.

4. Conclusions

These results allow drawing an important conclusion: Refractory metals rhenium and tungsten chemically interact with CO2 and carbonates at moderate high temperatures (T > 1300 °C), even at high pressure. These redox reactions give rise to the formation of metal oxide species and diamond. This fact suggests that extreme care should be taken in high-pressure high-temperature experiments involving the aforementioned oxidized carbon species in order to avoid non desired chemical reactions. Our experience suggests following some methodological recommendations to rule out the possibility of chemical interaction in laser-heated diamond-anvil cell experiments:
(i)
Center the laser hotspot in the pressure chamber, place it as far as possible from the gasket.
(ii)
If heating with a Nd-doped YAG laser, λ = 1.06 μm, do not use Re or W as an internal absorber of the laser radiation. As seen above, they easily react with the sample above 1300 °C. Pay special attention when using chemically inert Au as a heater. In the absence of a proper sample containment, this low melting temperature metal [49] would disperse across the pressure chamber and could eventually reach the Re or W gasket. A small and perfectly centered heater foil will minimize this possibility. Something similar occurs with soft Cu [49] or Pt [50,51].
(iii)
A convenient approach is heating the optically transparent samples with a CO2 laser, λ = 10.6 μm. This wavelength equates to a photon energy of the same order of magnitude as lattice phonons in covalent crystals, and it is usually absorbed by minerals and transparent oxides [52]. Note, however, that the focal size of the laser spot in this case is larger than in the case of solid-state lasers [12], making the heating of the gasket metal more likely. Steering and focusing of the beam becomes then critical. The use of gold-coated or diamond gaskets could help in preventing potential metal oxidation products.
From the data obtained, it follows that the decomposition of carbon dioxide and carbonates occurs at relatively low temperatures under reducing conditions, due to chemical interaction with refractory metals.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, D.S.-P.; laser-heating DAC XRD experiments, D.S.-P., T.M., J.R.-F. and D.D.; Formal analysis, R.C.-J. and D.S.-P.; Writing, R.C.-J. and D.S.-P.; Review, all the authors.

Funding

This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN) under Grants PGC 2018-097520-A-I00 and RED2018-102612-T (MALTA Consolider), and by the Generalitat Valenciana Grant PROMETEO/2018/123. D. S-P. acknowledges MINECO for a Ramón y Cajal (RyC-2014-15643).

Acknowledgments

Authors thank the APS and Diamond synchrotrons for beamtime allocation at GSECARS and I15 lines and the Mineralogy and Meteoritic Division of the Peaboby Museum for the provision of natural samples.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. (Right) LeBail fit of the X-Ray diffractometry (XRD) pattern of quenched recovered sample obtained close to the W gasket after compression (8 GPa) and heating (>1500º C) of tilleyite. Wavelength: 0.4246 Å. Color profiles and vertical marks correspond to the different phases found: scheelite-CaWO4 (red), bcc-W (blue, gasket), fcc-Cu (green, heater), distorted quartz-SiO2 (magenta), B1-CaO (orange) and aragonite–CaCO3 (black). (Left) Diamond (111) reflection was also found at 2θ = 11.835° after inspection of the XRD image.
Figure 1. (Right) LeBail fit of the X-Ray diffractometry (XRD) pattern of quenched recovered sample obtained close to the W gasket after compression (8 GPa) and heating (>1500º C) of tilleyite. Wavelength: 0.4246 Å. Color profiles and vertical marks correspond to the different phases found: scheelite-CaWO4 (red), bcc-W (blue, gasket), fcc-Cu (green, heater), distorted quartz-SiO2 (magenta), B1-CaO (orange) and aragonite–CaCO3 (black). (Left) Diamond (111) reflection was also found at 2θ = 11.835° after inspection of the XRD image.
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Figure 2. In situ XRD pattern of compressed (~24 GPa) laser-heated (1300 °C) rhenium in the presence of CO2. Wavelength: 0.3344 Å. Silica was used as thermal isolating material. At these P–T conditions, CO2 is liquid and, consequently, no diffraction signal of this phase was observed. Above 1250 °C, the diffraction peaks of orthorhombic β-ReO2 were clearly visible. Green, blue and red vertical ticks correspond to hcp-Re, SiO2-stishovite and β-ReO2, respectively.
Figure 2. In situ XRD pattern of compressed (~24 GPa) laser-heated (1300 °C) rhenium in the presence of CO2. Wavelength: 0.3344 Å. Silica was used as thermal isolating material. At these P–T conditions, CO2 is liquid and, consequently, no diffraction signal of this phase was observed. Above 1250 °C, the diffraction peaks of orthorhombic β-ReO2 were clearly visible. Green, blue and red vertical ticks correspond to hcp-Re, SiO2-stishovite and β-ReO2, respectively.
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Figure 3. LeBail fit of the in situ XRD pattern of compressed (~50 GPa) laser-heated (1600 °C) rhenium in the presence of CO2. Wavelength: 0.3344 Å. Silica was used as thermal isolating material. Experimental data are depicted as a solid black line, and calculated XRD profiles of β-ReO2, SiO2 stishovite, CO2−V and diamond are represented as red, blue, dark yellow and magenta lines, respectively. The full difference profile is represented at the bottom as a green line. Inset: XRD image showing the (111) diffraction peak of diamond, after CO2 reduction.
Figure 3. LeBail fit of the in situ XRD pattern of compressed (~50 GPa) laser-heated (1600 °C) rhenium in the presence of CO2. Wavelength: 0.3344 Å. Silica was used as thermal isolating material. Experimental data are depicted as a solid black line, and calculated XRD profiles of β-ReO2, SiO2 stishovite, CO2−V and diamond are represented as red, blue, dark yellow and magenta lines, respectively. The full difference profile is represented at the bottom as a green line. Inset: XRD image showing the (111) diffraction peak of diamond, after CO2 reduction.
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Table
Table 1. List of phases identified at ambient conditions in the recovered sample after compression and laser-heating the silicate-carbonate tilleyite Ca5(Si2O7)(CO3)2 in the presence of tungsten.
Table 1. List of phases identified at ambient conditions in the recovered sample after compression and laser-heating the silicate-carbonate tilleyite Ca5(Si2O7)(CO3)2 in the presence of tungsten.
CompoundSpace Group (Nr.)Lattice Parameters (Å)
Scheelite-CaWO4I41/a (88)a = 5.2404(10)
c = 11.374(4)
bcc-WIm 3 ¯ m (229)a = 3.163(3)
fcc-CuFm 3 ¯ m (225)a = 3.614(3)
Quartz-SiO2 (distorted)C222 (21)a = 4.996
b = 8.668
c = 5.46
B1-CaOFm 3 ¯ m (225)a = 4.818
Aragonite-CaCO3Pmcn (62)a = 4.962
b = 7.969
c = 5.743
Diamond -CFd 3 ¯ m (227)a = 3.567
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Table 2. List of phases identified in the in situ XRD pattern of compressed (~24 GPa) laser-heated (1300 °C) rhenium in the presence of CO2.
Table 2. List of phases identified in the in situ XRD pattern of compressed (~24 GPa) laser-heated (1300 °C) rhenium in the presence of CO2.
CompoundSpace Group (Nr.)Lattice Parameters (Å)
β-ReO2Pbcn (60)a = 4.669(3)
b = 5.556(3)
c = 4.524(2)
Stishovite-SiO2P42/mnm (136)a = 4.0929(11)
c = 2.639(2)
hcp-Re P63/mmc (194)a = 2.717
c = 4.413
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Table 3. List of phases identified in the in situ XRD pattern of compressed (~50 GPa) laser-heated (1600 °C) rhenium in the presence of CO2. The lattice parameters of the structures recovered at ambient conditions can be found in Reference. [21].
Table 3. List of phases identified in the in situ XRD pattern of compressed (~50 GPa) laser-heated (1600 °C) rhenium in the presence of CO2. The lattice parameters of the structures recovered at ambient conditions can be found in Reference. [21].
CompoundSpace Group (Nr.)Lattice parameters (Å)
β-ReO2Pbcn (60)a = 4.571(3)
b = 5.492(2)
c = 4.462(2)
Stishovite-SiO2P42/mnm (136)a = 4.027(2)
c = 2.607(2)
CO2-VI 4 ¯ 2d (122)a = 3.563
c = 5.905
Diamond -CFd-3m (227)a = 3.453

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