Pressure-stabilized MnB₆ that exhibits high-temperature ferromagnetism and high ductility at ambient pressure

Abstract

Metal borides are of significant interest because of their high strength, high melting point, superconductivity and magnetism. Here, a combination of swarm-intelligence structural search and first-principle calculations propose a pressure-stabilized...

Intrinsic magnetism with high critical temperatures and piezoelectricity in 2D transition metal tetraborides

“…Compared with most of the TM atom based 2D materials with only few stable phases, 2D TMBs composed of TM atoms and boron atom, are found to be of diverse structural characters and exhibit excellent electronic and magnetic properties. Taking Mn element as an example, it can hybrid with B and form various stable 2D configurations, such as MnB [28,34], MnB 2 [30,35], Mn 2 B 6 [31], MnB 3 [36], MnB 6 [37,38], MnB 9 [39], and so forth, which shows single atom layer-or multi-atom layer-thickness geometry. Similar structural character is also identified for other TMBs [27,32,40].…”