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Nature Materials 2, 650 - 651 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nmat990
Superconductors: Clathrates join the covalent club
Vincent H. Crespi1
- Vincent H. Crespi is at the Departments of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, USA. http://www.phys.psu.edu/people/crespi.html
Abstract
Covalent metals, such as MgB2 and the alkali-doped fullerenes, form an unusual class of superconductors. The mechanism of superconductivity in a new member of this family — the silicon clathrates — has now been determined.
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