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Fabrication and Optimization of Type II Silicon Clathrate Films
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Si8(SitBu3)6: a hitherto unknown cluster structure in silicon chemistry
Gerd Fischer1, Volker Huch, Peter Mayer
1Department Chemie und Biochemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|November 16, 2005
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