Crystal Structure Prediction from First Principles: The Crystal Structures of Glycine

Albert M Lund1, Gabriel I Pagola2, Anita M Orendt3

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 155 South 1452 East Room 405, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0190, US ; Center for High Performance Computing, University of Utah, 155 South 1452 East Room 405, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0190, US.

Chemical Physics Letters
|April 7, 2015
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