Superconductivity: Small steps towards the "grand unification"

Journal of Molecular Modeling

Volumn 11, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 323-329

  Grochala, Wojciech ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Fluorine; Hydrogen; Oxygen; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

ANION; FLUORIDE ION; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLUORIDES; HYDROGEN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXYGEN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 27844467751     PISSN: 16102940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-005-0250-0     Document Type: Article

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