Pressure-induced bonding and compound formation in xenon-hydrogen solids

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-53

  Somayazulu, Maddury ^a   Dera, Przemyslaw ^b   Goncharov, Alexander F ^a   Gramsch, Stephen A ^a   Liermann, Peter ^c   Yang, Wenge ^c   Liu, Zhenxian ^a   Mao, Ho Kwang ^a,c   Hemley, Russell J ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; XENON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; PRESSURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PRESSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; XENON;

EID: 77954950083     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.445     Document Type: Article

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