Multiscale modeling of the surfactant mediated synthesis and supramolecular assembly of cobalt nanodots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Adhikari, Narayan P ^a   Peng, Xihong ^a   Alizadeh, Azar ^b   Ganti, Surya ^b   Nayak, Saroj K ^a   Kumar, Sanat K ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MICELLES; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SOLUBILITY; SOLVENTS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMODYNAMICS;

CHAMICAL POTENTIAL; INTERMOLECULAR POTENTIALS; NANOCRYSTALS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 19744381121     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.188301     Document Type: Article

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