A study on the structural arrangements and compositional changes in laser-stabilized metastable AlO _<i>x</i> /C nanocomposites.

ABSTRACT: Amorphous metal oxides hold promising and yet, untapped potential as new classes of functional engineering materials due to their long-range disordered structures. While such disruptive features are alluring, fundamental understanding of structure-composition properties during their disorder-to-order transitions hold the key to their rational design as novel functional materials. Recently, we employed laser ablation synthesis in solution (LASiS) to kinetically entrap amorphous and metastable Al-oxide (a-AlO _x ) nanostructures with non-stoichiometric compositions (x ∼ 2.5-3.0) that indicated remarkable stability from carbon interfaces. In this work we provide detailed insights into thermally induced phase change characteristics and structural evolution of these high

SUBMITTER: Davis EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12917729 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature