Alloy formation of supported gold nanoparticles at their transition from clusters to solids: Does size matter?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Boyen, H G ^a   Ethirajan, A ^a   Kastle G ^a   Weigl, F ^a   Ziemann, P ^a   Schmid, G ^b   Garnier, M G ^c,d   Buttner M ^c   Oelhafen, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY FORMATION; CHEMICAL INERTNESS; FULL-SHELL CLUSTERS; GOLD NANOCLUSTERS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GOLD; GOLD ALLOYS; IN SITU PROCESSING; KINETIC ENERGY; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTOIONIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON; SOLVENTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 18144372414     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.016804     Document Type: Article

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