Low-energy boron fullerenes: Role of disorder and potential synthesis pathways
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Pascal Pochet,1,* Luigi Genovese,2 Sandip De,3 Stefan Goedecker,3 Damien Caliste,1 S. Alireza Ghasemi,3 Kuo Bao,3,4 and Thierry Deutsch1 1Laboratoire de Simulation Atomistique (L Sim), SP2M, INAC, CEA-UJF 17 Av. des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble, France 2European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 6 rue Horowitz, BP 220, 38043 Grenoble, France 3Institut für Physik, Universität Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland 4State Key Lab of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China (Received 8 November 2010; published 8 February 2011)
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