Stuffed fullerenelike boron carbide nanoclusters

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATICITIES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON DETACHMENT ENERGIES; HIGH STABILITY; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; ORBITAL OVERLAP; POLYHEDRAL SKELETAL ELECTRONS; RAMAN ACTIVE MODES; STABLE ISOMERS;

BORON; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ISOMERS; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOCLUSTERS;

BORON CARBIDE;

EID: 74549153198     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3280369     Document Type: Article

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