Does the Death Knell Toll for the Metallic Bond?

摘要

"There is an appointed time for everything under the heavens a tune to be born, and a time to die." Judging from two recent publications, the latter fate awaits the concept of the metallic bond. Based on t'wo somewhat different trains of thought, theauthors coin-hide that the metallic bond is a disposable quantity in descriptions of bonding in solids, and should be subsumed into the supposedly better established concepts of the covaient and ionic bond.