Revealing Rutherfordine Mineral as an Auxetic Material

The mechanical behavior of the uranyl carbonate mineral, rutherfordine, UO<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>3</sub>, was studied by means of theoretical solid-state methods based in Density Functional Theory using plane waves and pseudopotentials. The results of the computations reported in...

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Main Author: Francisco Colmenero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/11/2281