Pressure-stabilized superconductive yttrium hydrides

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Yinwei ^a,b,c   Hao, Jian ^a   Liu, Hanyu ^c   Tse, John S ^c   Wang, Yanchao ^b   Ma, Yanming ^b  

^a JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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EID: 84929192265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09948     Document Type: Article

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