Silicon oxide nanoparticles reveal the origin of silicate grains in circumstellar environments

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1190-1195

  Reber, Arthur C ^a   Clayborne, Penee A ^a   Reveles, J Ulises ^a   Khanna, Shiv N ^a   Castleman Jr , A W ^b   Ali, Ashraf ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE LUMINESCENCE; OXYGEN-BEARING SPECIES; SILICATE GRAINS; SILICON OXIDE;

AGGLOMERATION; ASTRONOMY; BIODIVERSITY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOMATERIAL; OXIDE; SILICATE; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICATES; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33745750352     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0605521     Document Type: Article

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