Interlayer Potential for Graphene/h-BN Heterostructures

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2896-2905

  Leven, Itai ^a   Maaravi, Tal ^a   Azuri, Ido ^b   Kronik, Leeor ^b   Hod, Oded ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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EID: 84974777484     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00147     Document Type: Article

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