Transition metals borocarbides

The investigation of the whole family of these multilayer compounds would help to understand the mechanisms for superconductivity and magnetism in the quaternary rare-earth transition-metal borocarbides (Michor et al. 2001 Baggio-Saitovitch et al. 2001). However this report will be confined to magnetism and superconductivity in singlelayer / Ni2B2C compounds i.e. compounds with (/ C/N) Ni2B2 with n > 1 will not be considered further. 

Alleno, E P. Berger, E. Leroy and C. Godart, 2001, in Rare Earth Transition Metal Borocarbides (Nitrides) Superconducting, Magnetic and Normal State Properties, eds K.-H. Muller and V.N. Narozh-nyi (Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht) p. 265. 

Cava, R.J., 2001, in Rare Earth Transition Metal Borocarbides (Nitrides) Superconducting, Magnetic and... 

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