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Putative global minimum structures of Morse clusters as a function of the range of the potential: 161 < or = N < or =

Yan Feng1, Longjiu Cheng, Haiyan Liu

  • 1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China. clj@ustc.edu

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. A
|November 14, 2009
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