Experimental pressure-temperature phase diagram of boron: Resolving the long-standing enigma

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Parakhonskiy, Gleb ^a,b   Dubrovinskaia, Natalia ^b   Bykova, Elena ^a,b   Wirth, Richard ^c   Dubrovinsky, Leonid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

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EID: 84859771394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00096     Document Type: Article

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