Assessing the performances of dispersion-corrected density functional methods for predicting the crystallographic properties of high nitrogen energetic salts

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4982-4994

  Sorescu, Dan C ^a,b   Byrd, Edward F C ^c   Rice, Betsy M ^c   Jordan, Kenneth D ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 84909607948     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct5005615     Document Type: Article

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