Water-driven structure transformation in nanoparticles at room temperature

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6952, 2003, Pages 1025-1029

  Zhang, Hengzhong ^a   Gilbert, Benjamin ^a   Huang, Feng ^a   Banfield, Jillian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TREATMENT; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

NANOPARTICLE STRUCTURE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

METHANOL; NANOPARTICLE; WATER; ZINC SULFIDE;

PARTICLE SIZE; PLANETARY SURFACE; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; SULFIDE; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DESORPTION; DUST; ENERGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SENSOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0041363274     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01845     Document Type: Article

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