First-principles study on substituted doping of BN nanotubes by transition metals V, Cr and Mn

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 976, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 215-220

  Xie, You ^a,b   Zhang, Jian Min ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

BN nanotube; Electronic structure; First principles; Magnetic property; Transition metal doping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84555202724     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2011.08.031     Document Type: Article

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