Icosahedral packing of B12 icosahedra in boron suboxide (B6O)

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6665, 1998, Pages 376-378

  Hubert, Hervé ^a   Devouard, Bertrand ^a,b   Garvie, Laurence A J ^a   O'Keeffe, Michael ^a   Buseck, Peter R ^a   Petuskey, William T ^a   McMillan, Paul F ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0032556884     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34885     Document Type: Article

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