Cobalt-centred boron molecular drums with the highest coordination number in the CoB16-cluster

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Popov, Ivan A ^a   Jian, Tian ^b   Lopez, Gary V ^b   Boldyrev, Alexander I ^a   Wang, Lai Sheng ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; COBALT; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

BORON; CHEMICAL BONDING; COBALT; ELECTRON; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SOLID; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ADIABATIC DETACHMENT ENERGY; ADIABATICITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; ISOMER; LASER VAPORIZATION; VAPORIZATION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84943778200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9654     Document Type: Article

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