Ionic high-pressure form of elemental boron

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7231, 2009, Pages 863-867

  Oganov, Artem R ^a,b,d   Chen, Jiuhua ^c,d   Gatti, Carlo ^e   Ma, Yanzhang ^f   Ma, Yanming ^a,g   Glass, Colin W ^a   Liu, Zhenxian ^h   Yu, Tony ^c   Kurakevych, Oleksandr O ⁱ   Solozhenko, Vladimir L ⁱ  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^g JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ION; METAL;

BORON; COMPLEXITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL BINDING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; FRUSTRATION; INFRARED RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 60149096355     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07736     Document Type: Article

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