Hydrogen-induced Ostwald ripening at room temperature in a Pd nanocluster film

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Di Vece, M ^a   Grandjean, D ^a   Van Bael, M J ^a   Romero, C P ^a   Wang, X ^a   Decoster, S ^b   Vantomme, A ^b   Lievens, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN STORAGE; HYDROGENATION; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NONMETALS; OSTWALD RIPENING; PALLADIUM; PIGMENTS; RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); CLUSTER SIZES; HYDROGEN-STORAGE MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NANO CLUSTERS; NANO-STRUCTURED; PALLADIUM ATOMS; PALLADIUM HYDRIDES; PALLADIUM NANOCLUSTERS; ROOM-TEMPERATURE (RT); RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROMETRY (RBS); SUBLIMATION ENERGY; X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE (EXAFS) SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION (XRD);

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 45249101817     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.236105     Document Type: Article

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