Ionic high-pressure form of elemental boron (2009)
Oganov, Artem R., Chen, Jiuhua, Gatti, Carlo, Ma, Yanzhang, Ma, Yanming, Glass, Colin W., ...
Boron is an element of fascinating chemical complexity. Controversies have shrouded this element since its discovery was announced in 1808: the new 'element' turned out to be a compound containing...
New high-pressure form of boron is significantly ionic (2009)
Oganov, Artem R., Chen, Jiuhua, Gatti, Carlo, Ma, Yanzhang, Ma, Yanming, Glass, Colin W., ...
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...