Hexamers and witchamers: Which hex do you choose?

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1021, Issue , 2013, Pages 70-83

  Pruitt, Spencer R ^a   Leang, Sarom S ^a   Xu, Peng ^a   Fedorov, Dmitri G ^b   Gordon, Mark S ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argon; Dispersion; Hexamer; Intermolecular; Polarization; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884983938     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2013.06.030     Document Type: Article

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