Metal nanocrystal superlattice nucleation and growth

Langmuir

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 978-983

  Sigman Jr , Michael B ^a   Saunders, Aaron E ^a   Korgel, Brian A ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; GOLD; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEATION; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; X RAY SCATTERING;

CHLOROFORM; DODECANETHIOL; FACE CENTERED CUBIC SUPERLATTICES; FILM MORPHOLOGY; GOLD NANOCRYSTAL; HEXANE; HIGH-RESOLUTION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER NANOCRYSTAL;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 1242288130     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la035405m     Document Type: Article

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