Compositional and electrochemical characterization of noble metal-diamondlike carbon nanocomposite thin films

Langmuir

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 6812-6818

  Menegazzo, Nicola ^a   Jin, Chunming ^b   Narayan, Roger J ^b   Mizaikoff, Boris ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND LIKE CARBON (DLC); NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NOBLE METAL NANOCLUSTERS; SILICON SUBSTRATES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; NANOCOMPOSITES; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

THIN FILMS;

DIAMOND; GOLD; NANOCOMPOSITE; PLATINUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; LASER; SURFACE PROPERTY;

DIAMOND; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GOLD; LASERS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PLATINUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 34250616725     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la062582p     Document Type: Article

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