Novel Rhenium Carbides at 200 GPa

• Laser heating of rhenium in a diamond anvil cell to 3000 +/- 300 K at about 200 GPa results in formation of two previously unknown rhenium carbides, hexagonal WC-type structured ReC and orthorhombic TiSi2-type structured ReC2. The shortest C-C distances [1.758(3) angstrom at 219(5) GPa and 1.850(4) angstrom at 180(7) GPa] found in honeycomb-like carbon nets in the structure of ReC2 are quite unusual. The Re-C solid solution formed at multimegabar pressure has the carbon content of approximate to 20 at%.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi -- Oorganisk kemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences -- Inorganic Chemistry (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Rhenium; Carbon; Carbides; Structure elucidation; High-pressure chemistry

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