New high-pressure form of boron is significantly ionic
published by Vladimir Solozhenko
in 2009
in Physics
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Abstract in English
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.