Unusual rigidity and ideal strength of CrB 4 and MnB 4

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Gou, Huiyang ^a,b   Li, Zhiping ^b   Niu, Hui ^a   Gao, Faming ^b   Zhang, Jingwu ^b   Ewing, Rodney C ^c   Lian, Jie ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; IDEAL STRENGTH; MICROSCOPIC DEFORMATIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SUPERHARD MATERIAL;

BORIDES; BORON; CALCULATIONS; RIGIDITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSITION METALS;

STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

EID: 84859977207     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3692777     Document Type: Article

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