Coerced mechanical coarsening of nanoparticle assemblies

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 167-170

  Blunt, M O ^a   Martin, C P ^a   Ahola Tuomi, M ^a,b   Pauliac Vaujour, E ^a   Sharp, P ^a   Nativo, P ^c   Brust, M ^c   Moriarty, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; NANOMETALS; NANOPARTICLES; OSTWALD RIPENING; PHASE SEPARATION;

COLLOIDAL NANOPARTICLES; MICRO AND NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES; OSTWALD RIPENING PROCESS; SAMPLE MORPHOLOGY; STRONG DEPENDENCES; TAPPING MODE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPIES (TM-AFM); THERMALLY ACTIVATED;

COARSENING;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33847625952     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.25     Document Type: Article

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