Endohedrally doped golden fullerenes [X@Au32] (X = Li +, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+)

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 114, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 8787-8793

  Jayasekharan, T ^a   Ghanty, T K ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI ION; ALKALI METAL CATIONS; CHARGE REDISTRIBUTION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY METHODS; DOPANT IONS; ENDOHEDRAL COMPLEXES; ENERGY DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ENERGY PARTITION; IMAGINARY FREQUENCY; IR FREQUENCIES; ORBITAL INTERACTION; PAULI REPULSION; STRUCTURAL FORM; SYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; SYMMETRY STRUCTURES; VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCIES; WEAK BONDING;

CESIUM; COMPLEXATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FULLERENES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL ANALYSIS; POSITIVE IONS;

CESIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77952359699     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp100705z     Document Type: Article

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