Effects of elastic anisotropy on strain distributions in decahedral gold nanoparticles

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 120-124

  Johnson, Craig L ^a   Snoeck, Etienne ^a   Ezcurdia, Manex ^a   Rodríguez González, Benito ^b   Pastoriza Santos, Isabel ^b   Liz Marzán, Luis M ^b   Htch, Martin J ^a  

^a CEMES CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOSENSORS; GOLD; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; STRAIN CONTROL;

COMPETING MODELS; ELASTIC ANISOTROPY; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 38549093243     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2083     Document Type: Article

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