Controlled growth of tetrapod-branched inorganic nanocrystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 382-385

  Manna, Liberato ^a,b   Milliron, Delia J ^a   Meisel, Andreas ^a   Scher, Erik C ^a   Alivisatos, A Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; NUCLEATION; PROCESS CONTROL; REACTION KINETICS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; THERMAL CYCLING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BULK CRYSTAL; INORGANIC NANOCRYSTALS; POLYTYPISM; SEMICONDUCTOR TETRAPODS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; TELLURIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SYNTHESIS;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TELLURIUM;

EID: 0042208675     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat902     Document Type: Letter

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