Filled platinum germanium skutterudites MPt4Ge12 (M = Sr, Ba, La-Nd, Sm, Eu): Crystal structure and chemical bonding

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie

Volumn 225, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 531-543

  Gumeniuk, Roman ^a   Borrmann, Horst ^a   Ormeci, Alim ^a   Rosner, Helge ^a   Schnelle, Walter ^a   Nicklas, Michael ^a   Grin, Yuri ^a   Leithe Jasper, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical bonding; Crystal structure; Electron localizability; Skutterudites; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951600415     PISSN: 00442968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/zkri.2010.1351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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