Chemical Control of Electronic Structure and Superconductivity in Layered Borides and Borocarbides: Understanding the Absence of Superconductivity in LiBC.

The synthetic search for materials related to the 39 K superconductor MgB has been difficult. The most promising theoretical suggestion, hole doping of LiBC, does not lead to a new superconductor. We show here that a combination of density functional theory (DFT) calculations, materials synthesis, a...

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Published in:	Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 128; no. 31; pp. 10043 - 10054
Main Authors:	Fogg, Andrew M., Meldrum, James, Darling, George R., Claridge, John B., Rosseinsky, Matthew J.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Chemical Society 8/9/2006
Subjects:	Superconductors Density functionals Superconductivity Electronic structure Atomic structure Electric conductivity
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