Carbon nitride frameworks and dense crystalline polymorphs

Physical Review B

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Pickard, Chris J ^a,b   Salamat, Ashkan ^c,d   Bojdys, Michael J ^e,f   Needs, Richard J ^g   McMillan, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84990924585     PISSN: 24699950     EISSN: 24699969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.094104     Document Type: Article

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