New high-pressure form of boron is significantly ionic
Artem R. Oganov, Jiuhua Chen, Carlo Gatti, Yanzhang Ma, Yanming Ma,, Colin W. Glass, Zhenxian Liu, Tony Yu, Oleksandr O. Kurakevych, and Vladimir, L. Solozhenko
TL;DR
This paper clarifies that the newly discovered high-pressure form of boron is genuinely new and exhibits significant ionic bonding, countering previous critiques.
Contribution
It confirms the existence and ionic nature of the new high-pressure boron phase, providing clarification and correction to prior scientific debates.
Findings
The high-pressure boron form is indeed new.
It has significant ionic bonding character.
The critique by Dubrovinskaia et al. is scientifically flawed.
Abstract
The comment of Dubrovinskaia et al. is scientifically flawed. The high-pressure form of boron, discovered by Oganov et al., is indeed new and its bonding has a significant ionic character, as demonstrated in Ref. 1.
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Taxonomy
TopicsBoron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research · High-pressure geophysics and materials · Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research