Quantum mechanically guided design of transition metal alloyed RuO 2 nanorods

Crystal Growth and Design

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4531-4536

  Music, Denis ^a   Basse, Felix H U ^a   Schneider, Jochen M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; AB INITIO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; ATOMIC SCALE; DESIGN PROPOSAL; NANOROD FORMATION; NB ADDITION; RUTILE STRUCTURE; SOLUBILITY LIMITS; SPACE GROUPS; TERNARY COMPOUNDS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION DATA;

ALLOYING ELEMENTS; ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANORODS; NIOBIUM OXIDE; OXIDE MINERALS; PHASE STABILITY; RUTHENIUM ALLOYS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

NIOBIUM;

EID: 77957699086     PISSN: 15287483     EISSN: 15287505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cg1008297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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