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Acknowledgement The research described herein was supported by the US National Science Foundation, Solid State Chemistry, via grant DMR-0444657 and earlier grants. The writing of this article was supported by Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy (DOE), and all of this was carried out in the facilities of the Ames Laboratory, US-DOE. 

Acknowledgments Ames Laboratory is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Iowa State University under Contract No. W-7405-ENG-82. This work was supported by the Director for Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. T. J. B. and M. S. G. would also like to acknowledge the National Science Foundation for their support of portions of this work. The calculations reported here were performed on IBM RS 6000 workstations generously provided by Iowa State University. 

The work described here has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the U.S. Department of Energy through the Ames Laboratory. 

The authors were supported by National Science Foundation grant CHE-9403416 and the R. A. Welch Foundation (DJK) and by National Science Foundation grant ASC-9310235 (Y. H.). Ames Laboratory is operated for the Department of Energy by Iowa State University under contract 2-7405-ENG82. 

The considerable number of excellent coworkers responsible for many of the results cited are evident in the references following. The early investigations were supported financially by the Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy. This program has been supported since 1984 by the National Science Foundation -Solid State Chemistry - via grants DMR-8318616 and -8902954. 

Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, and Chemistry Department, Iowa State University, Ames, lA 50011, U.S.A 2 Chemistry Department, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung Taiwan 80424, Republic of China... 

Schmidt, F. A., Lunde, B. K., and Williams, D. E., Doc. No. IS-4125, Iowa State University, Ames National Laboratory, U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, Ames, lA, 1976. 

Acknowledgements This work was supported in part by the startup funds provided by Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory, as well as a research fund from Iowa Energy Center. I am grateful to Dr. Chaoxian Xiao and Mr. Kyle Brashler for their help with this manuscript. 

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