A photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio study of the structures and chemical bonding of the B25- cluster

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Piazza, Zachary A ^a   Popov, Ivan A ^b   Li, Wei Li ^a   Pal, Rhitankar ^c   Cheng Zeng, Xiao ^c   Boldyrev, Alexander I ^b   Wang, Lai Sheng ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL LEVEL; LOW-LYING STRUCTURES; POTENTIAL ENERGY LANDSCAPES; QUASI-PLANAR STRUCTURE; RIBBON-LIKE STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

ISOMERS;

EID: 84904688506     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4879551     Document Type: Article

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