Dissociation of methane under high pressure

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 133, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Gao, Guoying ^a   Oganov, Artem R ^b,c   Ma, Yanming ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Li, Peifang ^a   Li, Yinwei ^a   Iitaka, Toshiaki ^d   Zou, Guangtian ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; CRYSTAL FORMS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE PREDICTION; DIAMOND FORMATION; ENERGY SOURCE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; EXTREME CONDITIONS; GIANT PLANETS; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW FORMATION PRESSURE; NEPTUNE; PLANETARY PHYSICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPACE GROUPS; TEMPERATURE PHASE; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

BUTANE; DIAMONDS; DISSOCIATION; ETHANE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; METHANE; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PLANETS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 77958082994     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3488102     Document Type: Article

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