Metastable high-pressure phases of low-Z compounds: creation of a new chemistry or a prompt for old principles?
Recent experiments demonstrate that high pressure is a powerful tool for the synthesis of new unusual inorganic polymers consisting of low-Z elements. However, experience within organic chemistry, for example, polyethylene, provides evidence that polymeric phases with high thermal stability can be potentially synthesised by conventional chemical techniques without applying high pressure.
Institute for High Pressure Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow region, 142190, Russia. brazhkin@ns.hppi.troitsk.ru
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D004735:Energy Transfer; D007287:Inorganic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry*; D008420:Manufactured Materials; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D044367:Phase Transition; D020959:Polyethylene / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D011312:Pressure
D007287:Inorganic Chemicals; D011108:Polymers; D020959:Polyethylene