Origin of hardness in WB4 and its implications for ReB 4, TaB4, MoB4, TcB4, and OsB 4

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Wang, Mei ^a   Li, Yinwei ^a   Cui, Tian ^a   Ma, Yanming ^a   Zou, Guangtian ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS; SUPERHARD MATERIALS;

EID: 51749111606     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2977760     Document Type: Article

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