Stability of suspended gold and silver alloy monatomic chains

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Fa, Wei ^a   Dong, Jinming ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; CHAINS; ENTHALPY; GOLD; METAL REFINING; PRECIOUS METALS; SILVER; SYSTEM STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); APPLIED (CO); EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURES; GOLD CHAINS; MONATOMIC CHAINS; PLANE-WAVE PSEUDOPOTENTIAL METHOD; RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS; SELF-PURIFICATION; STRING TENSION; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

SILVER ALLOYS;

EID: 46149092286     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2940332     Document Type: Article

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