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Chemical bonding topology of superconductors. 2. Ternary lanthanide rhodium bordies. Technical report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6370569
Graph-theory-derived methods are used to derive the chemical-bonding topology of the closed-shell rhodium boride building blocks of the superconducting lanthanide rhodium borides, (Ln = lanthanides such as neodymium, samarium, erbium, thulium, lutetium). The electronically linked three-dimensional lattice is by exotetrahedral Rh-Rh bonds. This work thus provides an example of an additional class of relatively high-temperature superconductors exhibiting porously delocalized chemical bonding topology like the Chevrel phases discussed in the previous paper of this series.
Research Organization:
Georgia Univ., Athens (USA). Dept. of Chemistry
OSTI ID:
6370569
Report Number(s):
AD-A-178079/0/XAB; TR-38
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English