Stuffing improves the stability of fullerenelike boron clusters

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Prasad, Dasari L V K ^a,b   Jemmis, Eluvathingal D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE STABILITY;

BORON CLUSTERS; GIANT CLUSTERS; PENTAGONAL PYRAMIDS; STABLE STRUCTURES;

FULLERENES;

EID: 42549098567     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.165504     Document Type: Article

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