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Growth of boron nitride nanotubes from magnesium diboride catalysts

E Songfeng, Li‐Ling Wu, Chaowei Li, Zezhou Zhu, Xiaoyang Long, Renjie Geng, Jun Zhang, Zhenyu Li, Weibang Lu, Yagang Yao

Nanoscale · 2018 · 36 citations · 65 references

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Abstract

MgB<sub>2</sub> can serve as an efficient catalyst for BNNT growth because of satisfying the criteria for the VLS mechanisms.

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Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

John P. Perdew, Kieron Burke, Matthias Ernzerhof · Physical Review Letters · 1996 · 211.5K citations · Full text

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Efficient iterative schemes for<i>ab initio</i>total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set

Georg Kresse, J. Furthmüller · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1996 · 120.5K citations

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Projector augmented-wave method

Peter E. Blöchl · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1994 · 90.8K citations

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From ultrasoft pseudopotentials to the projector augmented-wave method

Georg Kresse, Daniel P. Joubert · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1999 · 83.6K citations

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Efficiency of ab-initio total energy calculations for metals and semiconductors using a plane-wave basis set

Georg Kresse, J. Furthmüller · Computational Materials Science · 1996 · 74.7K citations

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