Ammonia as a case study for the spontaneous ionization of a simple hydrogen-bonded compound

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Palasyuk, Taras ^a,b   Troyan, Ivan ^a,c   Eremets, Mikhail ^a   Drozd, Vadym ^d   Medvedev, Sergey ^e   Zaleski Ejgierd, Patryk ^b   Magos Palasyuk, Ewelina ^b   Wang, Hongbo ^a   Bonev, Stanimir A ^f,g   Dudenko, Dmytro ^h   Naumov, Pavel ^c,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^c SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IONIZATION; PLANET; SIMULATION; TRANSFORMATION; WATER;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HYDROGEN BOND; IONIZATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHASE TRANSITION; PREDICTION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIMULATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84906268509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4460     Document Type: Article

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