Synthesis of perfect silver nanocubes by a simple polyol process

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1479-1485

  Zhu, Jiejun ^a,b   Kan, Caixia ^a   Zhu, Xiaoguang ^c   Wan, Jian Guo ^a   Han, Min ^a   Zhao, Yue ^a   Wang, Baolin ^a   Wang, Guanghou ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMAL EFFECTS; VINYL RESINS;

POLY(VINYL PYRROLIDONE); POLYOL SYNTHESIS PROCESS; SILVER NANOCUBES;

SILVER;

EID: 34347226230     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0222     Document Type: Article

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