Synthesis of molecular metallic barium superhydride: pseudocubic BaH


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 Jan 2021
Historique:
received: 12 06 2020
accepted: 13 11 2020
entrez: 12 1 2021
pubmed: 13 1 2021
medline: 13 1 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Following the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the La-H system, we studied the formation of new chemical compounds in the barium-hydrogen system at pressures from 75 to 173 GPa. Using in situ generation of hydrogen from NH

Identifiants

pubmed: 33431840
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20103-5
pii: 10.1038/s41467-020-20103-5
pmc: PMC7801595
doi:

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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

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273

Subventions

Organisme : National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China)
ID : 51632002
Organisme : National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China)
ID : 11974133
Organisme : National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China)
ID : 51720105007
Organisme : Russian Science Foundation (RSF)
ID : 19-72-30043
Organisme : National Science Foundation (NSF)
ID : DE-FG02-94ER14466
Organisme : DOE | LDRD | Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
ID : DE-AC02-06CH11357
Organisme : Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
ID : 19-03-00100

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Auteurs

Wuhao Chen (W)

State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.

Dmitrii V Semenok (DV)

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, 3 Nobel Street, Moscow, 143026, Russia.

Alexander G Kvashnin (AG)

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, 3 Nobel Street, Moscow, 143026, Russia.

Xiaoli Huang (X)

State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China. huangxiaoli@jlu.edu.cn.

Ivan A Kruglov (IA)

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutsky Lane, Dolgoprudny, 141700, Russia.
Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), Moscow, 127055, Russia.

Michele Galasso (M)

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, 3 Nobel Street, Moscow, 143026, Russia.

Hao Song (H)

State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.

Defang Duan (D)

State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.

Alexander F Goncharov (AF)

Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC, 20015, USA.

Vitali B Prakapenka (VB)

Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.

Artem R Oganov (AR)

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, 3 Nobel Street, Moscow, 143026, Russia. a.oganov@skoltech.ru.

Tian Cui (T)

State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China. cuitian@jlu.edu.cn.
School of Physical Science and Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China. cuitian@jlu.edu.cn.

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