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Stable Lithium Argon compounds under high pressure.


ABSTRACT: High pressure can fundamentally alter the bonding patterns of chemical elements. Its effects include stimulating elements thought to be "inactive" to form unexpectedly stable compounds with unusual chemical and physical properties. Here, using an unbiased structure search method based on CALYPSO methodology and density functional total energy calculations, the phase stabilities and crystal structures of Li-Ar compounds are systematically investigated at high pressure up to 300?GPa. Two unexpected LimArn compounds (LiAr and Li3Ar) are predicted to be stable above 112?GPa and 119?GPa, respectively. A detailed analysis of the electronic structure of LiAr and Li3Ar shows that Ar in these compounds attracts electrons and thus behaves as an oxidizing agent. This is markedly different from the hitherto established chemical reactivity of Ar. Moreover, we predict that the P4/mmm phase of Li3Ar has a superconducting transition temperature of 17.6?K at 120?GPa.

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4652216 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Stable Lithium Argon compounds under high pressure.

Li Xiaofeng X   Hermann Andreas A   Peng Feng F   Lv Jian J   Wang Yanchao Y   Wang Hui H   Ma Yanming Y  

Scientific reports 20151119


High pressure can fundamentally alter the bonding patterns of chemical elements. Its effects include stimulating elements thought to be "inactive" to form unexpectedly stable compounds with unusual chemical and physical properties. Here, using an unbiased structure search method based on CALYPSO methodology and density functional total energy calculations, the phase stabilities and crystal structures of Li-Ar compounds are systematically investigated at high pressure up to 300 GPa. Two unexpecte  ...[more]

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