Computational investigation on the endohedral borofullerenes M@B40 (M = Sc, Y, La)

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Jin, Peng ^a   Hou, Qinghua ^a   Tang, Chengchun ^a   Chen, Zhongfang ^b  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Borofullerenes; Boron clusters; Density functional calculations; Endohedral fullerenes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930841000     PISSN: 1432881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-014-1612-4     Document Type: Article

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