Nonicosahedral boron allotrope synthesized at high pressure and high temperature

Chuvashova, Irina; Bykova, Elena; Bykov, Maxim; Prakapenka, Vitali; Glazyrin, Konstantin; Mezouar, Mohamed; Dubrovinsky, Leonid; Dubrovinskaia, Natalia

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.180102

Title: Nonicosahedral boron allotrope synthesized at high pressure and high temperature

Journal Article · Tue May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.180102· OSTI ID:1357640

Chuvashova, Irina ^[1]; Bykova, Elena ^[1]; Bykov, Maxim ^[1]; Prakapenka, Vitali ^[2]; Glazyrin, Konstantin ^[3]; Mezouar, Mohamed ^[4]; Dubrovinsky, Leonid ^[1]; Dubrovinskaia, Natalia ^[1]

Univ. of Bayreuth (Germany)
Univ. of Chicago, Argonne, IL (United States)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble Cedex (France)

Theoretical predictions of pressure-induced phase transformations often become long-standing enigmas because of limitations of contemporary available experimental possibilities. Hitherto the existence of a nonicosahedral boron allotrope has been one of them. Here we report on a nonicosahedral boron allotrope, which we denoted as ζ -B, with the orthorhombic α-Ga-type structure (space group Cmce) synthesized in a diamond-anvil cell at extreme high-pressure high-temperature conditions (115 GPa and 2100 K). The structure of ζ -B was solved using single-crystal synchrotron x-ray diffraction and its compressional behavior was studied in the range of very high pressures (115–135 GPa). Here,experimental validation of theoretical predictions reveals the degree of our up-to-date comprehension of condensed matter and promotes further development of solid-state physics and chemistry.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); German Research Foundation (DFG)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; FG02-94ER14466; EAR-1128799; 5K13WC3; DU 954-6/1; DU 954-6/2; DU 954-8/1; DU 393-9/1; DU 393-10/1

OSTI ID:: 1357640

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1357309

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 18; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: ENGLISH

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