Planar to linear structural transition in small boron-carbon mixed clusters: CxB5 -x- (x = 1-5)

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 14104-14112

  Wang, Lei Ming ^a   Averkiev, Boris B ^b   Ramilowski, Jordan A ^b   Huang, Wei ^a   Wang, Lai Sheng ^a   Boldyrev, Alexander I ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON CLUSTERS; C CONTENTS; GLOBAL MINIMUM STRUCTURE; LINEAR CHAIN; LINEAR STRUCTURES; LINEAR TRANSITIONS; MIXED CLUSTERS; PLANAR STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS;

BORON; CARBON CLUSTERS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BORON COMPOUNDS;

BORON; CARBON;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; MATERIALS; SPECTROMETER; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77957696820     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja103846q     Document Type: Article

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