Gluconate controls one-dimensional growth of tellurium nanostructures

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 343-348

  Gao, Feng ^a   Lu, Qingyi ^a   Komarneni, Sridhar ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHELATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; FABRICATION; MORPHOLOGY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TELLURIUM;

CHELATING FUNCTION; SODIUM GLUCONATE; TELLURIUM NANORODS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33644522023     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2006.0064     Document Type: Article

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