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SUBMITTER: Kimber SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3986163 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kimber Simon A J SA Salamat Ashkan A Evans Shaun R SR Jeschke Harald O HO Muthukumar Kaliappan K Tomić Milan M Salvat-Pujol Francesc F Valentí Roser R Kaisheva Maria V MV Zizak Ivo I Chatterji Tapan T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140324 14
Dramatic volume collapses under pressure are fundamental to geochemistry and of increasing importance to fields as diverse as hydrogen storage and high-temperature superconductivity. In transition metal materials, collapses are usually driven by so-called spin-state transitions, the interplay between the single-ion crystal field and the size of the magnetic moment. Here we show that the classical S = 5/2 mineral hauerite (MnS2) undergoes an unprecedented (ΔV ~ 22%) collapse driven by a conceptua ...[more]