Hexagonal boron nitride on transition metal surfaces

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Gómez Díaz, Jaime ^a   Ding, Yun ^a   Koitz, Ralph ^a   Seitsonen, Ari P ^a   Iannuzzi, Marcella ^a   Hutter, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boron nitride; Density functional theory; Interfaces; Metal surfaces; Nanomesh

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874147875     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-013-1350-z     Document Type: Article

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