Abstract
Density functional theory is demonstrated to reproduce the and NMR chemical shifts of icosahedral boron carbides with sufficient accuracy to extract previously unresolved structural information from experimental NMR spectra. can be viewed as an arrangement of 3-atom linear chains and 12-atom icosahedra. According to our results, all the chains have a CBC structure. Most of the icosahedra have a structure with the C atom placed in a polar site, and a few percent have a structure or a structure with the two C atoms placed in two antipodal polar sites.
- Received 23 April 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.085506
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