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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 247393, 3 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/247393
Research Article

Calculated Changes in the Elastic Properties of MgCNi3 at the Superconducting Transition

R. Abd-Shukor

School of Applied Physics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

Received 29 November 2012; Accepted 8 January 2013

Academic Editor: Mark Blamire

Copyright © 2013 R. Abd-Shukor. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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