Real-time monitoring of growing nanoparticles

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5624, 2003, Pages 1416-1419

  Renaud, Gilles ^a   Lazzari, Rémi ^a,b   Revenant, Christine ^a   Barbier, Antoine ^a   Noblet, Marion ^a   Ulrich, Olivier ^a   Leroy, Frédéric ^a   Jupille, Jacques ^b   Borensztein, Yves ^c   Henry, Claude R ^d   Deville, Jean Paul ^e   Scheurer, Fabrice ^e   Mane Mane, Jeannot ^e   Fruchart, Olivier ^f  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CAMPUS DE LUMINY   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^f LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM; X RAY SCATTERING;

REAL-TIME MONITORING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

COBALT DERIVATIVE; LEAD; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; NANOPARTICLE; SILVER DERIVATIVE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; FILM; GAS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 0037849902     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082146     Document Type: Article

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