Chinping Chen, Rongming Wang and colleagues have made perfect single crystals of MgBr2, as part of their collaboration between Peking University and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Magnesium diboride is known for its good superconducting properties, and many forms of MgB2 have been made previously, but large single crystals are still extremely difficult to obtain. In this CrystEngComm Hot article, Chen and Wang use a hybrid physical-chemical vapor deposition technique to obtain perfect crystals.
Read the full article to find out more about magnesium diboride single crystals…
Single-crystal MgB2 hexagonal microprisms via hybrid physical-chemical vapor deposition
Weimeng Chen, Wei Liu, Chinping Chen, Rongming Wang and Qingrong Feng
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05272A, Communication
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