An environmentally sensitive phase map of titania nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2237-2242

  Barnard, Amanda S ^a   Xu, Huifang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanocrystal; Phase diagram; Simulation; Surface chemistry; TEM; Theory; Titania

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CHEMICAL STABILITY; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE STABILITY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVES; EQUILIBRIUM BOUNDARIES; EQUILIBRIUM SHAPES; NANO MATERIALS; PHASE MAPS; POST SYNTHESIS; SIMULATION; TEM; THEORY; THERMODYNAMIC MODELS; TITANIA; TITANIA NANOCRYSTALS;

TITANIUM OXIDES;

NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TITANIUM;

EID: 58049202386     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800446w     Document Type: Article

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