Single-bonded cubic form of nitrogen

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 558-563

  Eremets, Mikhail I ^a   Gavriliuk, Alexander G ^a,b,c   Trojan, Ivan A ^a,c   Dzivenko, Dymitro A ^a   Boehler, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE FOR HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CATALYSTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAMONDS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITROGEN; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CARBON ATOMS; COVALENT BONDS; ENERGY CAPACITY; MOLECULAR NITROGEN;

CHEMICAL BONDS;

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 3342954729     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1146     Document Type: Article

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