Ionicities of boron-boron bonds in B12 icosahedra

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  He, Julong ^a   Wu, Erdong ^b   Wang, Huitian ^c   Liu, Riping ^a   Tian, Yongjun ^a  

^a YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B12 ICOSAHEDRA; IONICITIES; POLAR COVALENT SOLIDS; RHOMBOHEDRAL LATTICE;

ATOMS; BORON; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; IONIC CONDUCTION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CHEMICAL BONDS;

EID: 18144431399     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.015504     Document Type: Article

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