Large triangular single crystals formed bymild annealing of self-organized silver nanocrystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 900-907

  Courty, A ^a   Henry, A I ^a   Goubet, N ^a   Pileni, M P ^a  

^a UMR 8233 CNRS Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; NANOCRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILVER;

ISOLATED NANOCRYSTALS; SILVER NANOCRYSTALS; WELL-CRYSTALLIZED COALESCED PARTICLES;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 35748944839     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2004     Document Type: Article

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