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Preparation of boron microcrystals via high-pressure, high-temperature pyrolysis of decaborane, B10H14

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Crystalline boron has been prepared via high-pressure, high-temperature pyrolysis of decaborane, B10H14. We obtained α-tetragonal boron crystals at a pressure of 8–9 GPa and temperatures in the range 1100–1600°C and β-rhombohedral boron intergrowths at 3 GPa and 1200°C.

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  1. Vereshchagin Institute of High-Pressure Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 142190, Russia

    E. A. Ekimov

  2. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 59, Moscow, 119333, Russia

    I. P. Zibrov

  3. Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    A. V. Zoteev

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Original Russian Text © E.A. Ekimov, I.P. Zibrov, A.V. Zoteev, 2011, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2011, Vol. 47, No. 11, pp. 1311–1316.

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Ekimov, E.A., Zibrov, I.P. & Zoteev, A.V. Preparation of boron microcrystals via high-pressure, high-temperature pyrolysis of decaborane, B10H14 . Inorg Mater 47, 1194–1198 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168511110069

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