Benchmarking Density Functional Theory Based Methods to Model NiOOH Material Properties: Hubbard and van der Waals Corrections vs Hybrid Functionals

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3807-3812

  Zaffran, Jeremie ^a   Caspary Toroker, Maytal ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 84982182394     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00657     Document Type: Article

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