Transparent dense sodium

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7235, 2009, Pages 182-185

  Ma, Yanming ^a,b,c   Eremets, Mikhail ^c   Oganov, Artem R ^b,d,g   Xie, Yu ^a   Trojan, Ivan ^c   Medvedev, Sergey ^c   Lyakhov, Andriy O ^b,g   Valle, Mario ^e   Prakapenka, Vitali ^f  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e Centro Svizzero Di Calcolo Scientifico   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; LITHIUM; METAL; POTASSIUM; RUBIDIUM; SODIUM;

PRESSURE; SODIUM; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ATOM; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; ENTHALPY; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL PHASE; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 62249153966     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07786     Document Type: Article

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