Assessment of the density functional tight binding method for protic ionic liquids

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 4633-4643

  Addicoat, Matthew A ^a   Stefanovic, Ryan ^b   Webber, Grant B ^b   Atkin, Rob ^b   Page, Alister J ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

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EID: 84907982142     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct500394t     Document Type: Article

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