Nanoparticle printing with single-particle resolution

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 570-576

  Kraus, Tobias ^a,b   Malaquin, Laurent ^a,c   Schmid, Heinz ^a   Riess, Walter ^a   Spencer, Nicholas D ^b   Wolf, Heiko ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; COLLOIDS; NANOMETALS; NANOPARTICLES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); WETTING;

COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE ARRANGEMENTS; PARTICLE ASSEMBLIES; PLACEMENT ACCURACY; TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES; USEFUL PROPERTIES; WETTING PROPERTY;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

NANOPARTICLE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; COLLOID; GEOMETRY; OPTICAL ROTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548456917     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.262     Document Type: Article

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