How a silver dendritic mesocrystal converts to a single crystal

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Fang, Jixiang ^a   Ding, Bingjun ^a   Song, Xiaoping ^a   Han, Yong ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; NANOCRYSTALS; SILVER; TIN COMPOUNDS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC FUSION PROCESSES; DENDRITIC MESOCRYSTALS; GALVANIC REPLACEMENT REACTION; SMOOTH SURFACE;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 43049084755     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2888770     Document Type: Article

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