Nucleation and growth in structural transformations of nanocrystals

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2099-2102

  Grünwald, Michael ^a   Dellago, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENTHALPIES; CDSE NANOCRYSTALS; CRITICAL NUCLEI; CRYSTAL PLANES; CRYSTAL SIZE; CRYSTAL SURFACES; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; NUCLEATION MECHANISM; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION; TRANSFORMATION MECHANISMS; TRANSITION PATH SAMPLING; TRANSITION PRESSURE; TRANSITION STATE;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NANOCRYSTALS;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 66449095903     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl900609d     Document Type: Article

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