High-Pressure Polymeric Nitrogen Allotrope with the Black Phosphorus StructureShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 124, no 21, article id 216001Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Studies of polynitrogen phases are of great interest for fundamental science and for the design of novel high energy density materials. Laser heating of pure nitrogen at 140 GPa in a diamond anvil cell led to the synthesis of a polymeric nitrogen allotrope with the black phosphorus structure, bp-N. The structure was identified in situ using synchrotron single-crystal x-ray diffraction and further studied by Raman spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations. The discovery of bp-N brings nitrogen in line with heavier pnictogen elements, resolves incongruities regarding polymeric nitrogen phases and provides insights into polynitrogen arrangements at extreme densities.
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AMER PHYSICAL SOC , 2020. Vol. 124, no 21, article id 216001
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Inorganic Chemistry
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166477DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.216001ISI: 000535862200009PubMedID: 32530671OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-166477DiVA, id: diva2:1444139
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Funding Agencies|Alexander von Humboldt FoundationAlexander von Humboldt Foundation; Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF)Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF) [5K16WC1, 05K19WC1]; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [DU 954-11/1, DU 393-9/2, DU 393-13/1]; DFGGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [DFG FOR2125, WI1232]; Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linkoping University (Faculty Grant SFO-Mat-LiU) [2009 00971]
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