Highly compressed ammonia forms an ionic crystal

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 775-779

  Pickard, Chris J ^a   Needs, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FORECASTING; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULES;

AMMONIA MOLECULES; CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HYDROGEN BONDED SYSTEMS; HYDROGEN-BONDED STRUCTURES; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PLANETARY PHYSICS; VOLUME REDUCTIONS;

AMMONIA;

EID: 52549094228     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2261     Document Type: Article

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