Discovery of elusive structures of multifunctional transition-metal borides
- 30 November 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Nanoscale
- Vol. 8 (2) , 1055-1065
Abstract
A definitive determination of crystal structures is an important prerequisite for designing and exploiting new functional materials. We find that the long-assumed TMB2phases of multifunctional tungsten and molybdenum borides are in fact a family of complex TMB3polytypes.Keywords
Funding Information
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (13JC1402900, 14XD1424300)
- Division of Materials Research (DMR-0946404, DMR-1506669)
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