Encapsulation of neutral gold nanoclusters by resorcinarenes

Langmuir

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 8337-8339

  Stavens, Kevin B ^b   Pusztay, Stephen V ^a   Zou, Shouzhong ^a   Andres, Ronald P ^a,b   Wei, Alexander ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMISORPTION; ENCAPSULATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DODECANETHIOL; NEUTRAL GOLD NANOCLUSTERS; RESORCINARENES;

GOLD;

EID: 0033350068     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la9911786     Document Type: Article

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