Stability of xenon oxides at high pressures

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-65

  Zhu, Qiang ^a   Jung, Daniel Y ^b   Oganov, Artem R ^a,c   Glass, Colin W ^d   Gatti, Carlo ^e   Lyakhov, Andriy O ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDE; XENON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; PRESSURE; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; OXIDES; PRESSURE; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE; XENON;

EID: 84871578048     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1497     Document Type: Article

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