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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.105502
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11204111, 11404148, 11474126]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu province [BK20130223]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
- EFree, an Energy Frontier Research Center - DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC-0001057]
- NNSA [DE-NA-00006]
- CDAC
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The pressure-induced transformation of diatomic nitrogen into nonmolecular polymeric phases may produce potentially useful high-energy-density materials. We combine first-principles calculations with structure searching to predict a new class of nitrogen-rich boron nitrides with a stoichiometry of B3N5 that are stable or metastable relative to solid N-2 and h-BN at ambient pressure. The most stable phase at ambient pressure has a layered structure (h-B3N5) containing hexagonal B3N3 layers sandwiched with intercalated freely rotating N-2 molecules. At 15 GPa, a three-dimensional C222(1) structure with single N-N bonds becomes the most stable. This pressure is much lower than that required for triple-to-single bond transformation in pure solid nitrogen (110 GPa). More importantly, C222(1)-B3N5 is metastable, and can be recovered under ambient conditions. Its energy density of similar to 3.44 kJ/g makes it a potential high-energydensity material. In addition, stress-strain calculations estimate a Vicker's hardness of similar to 44 GPa. Structure searching reveals a new clathrate sodalitelike BN structure that is metastable under ambient conditions.
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