Chemical modeling of mixed occupations and site preferences in anisotropic crystal structures: Case of complex intermetallic borides

Inorganic Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5677-5685

  Deringer, Volker L ^a   Goerens, Christian ^a   Esters, Marco ^a   Dronskowski, Richard ^a   Fokwa, Boniface P T ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84861323259     PISSN: 00201669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ic300023t     Document Type: Article

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