Amorphous silica-like carbon dioxide
@article{Santoro2006AmorphousSC, title={Amorphous silica-like carbon dioxide}, author={Mario Santoro and Federico Aiace Gorelli and Roberto Bini and Giancarlo Ruocco and Sandro Scandolo and Wilson A. Crichton}, journal={Nature}, year={2006}, volume={441}, pages={857-860} }
Among the group IV elements, only carbon forms stable double bonds with oxygen at ambient conditions. At variance with silica and germania, the non-molecular single-bonded crystalline form of carbon dioxide, phase V, only exists at high pressure. The amorphous forms of silica (a-SiO2) and germania (a-GeO2) are well known at ambient conditions; however, the amorphous, non-molecular form of CO2 has so far been described only as a result of first-principles simulations. Here we report the…
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