First-principles study of structural, el
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Xuechao Zhou; Haiqian Zhang; Chuanwei Cheng; Junshan Gao; Guoyue Xu; Yingying Li
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We have performed first-principles study on the bonding nature, elastic property and hardness of vanadium diboride (VB 2 ). The nature of chemical bonding can be recognized as a combination of covalent, ionic and metallic bonds from their electronic structures. Density of state, valence charge densi