The Geometries, Stabilities and Electronic Property of Cationic Vanadium Doped Germanium Cluster GenV+ (n=9-13) from Density Functional Theory
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Keywords: BP86/LANL2DZ, binding energy, V-Ge clusters, structure of clusters.
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