Nanogold: A quantitative phase map

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1431-1436

  Barnard, Amanda S ^a   Young, Neil P ^b   Kirkland, Angus I ^b   Van Huis, Marijn A ^c   Xu, Huifang ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gold; Modeling; Nanoparticles; Phase diagram; Shape; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO THERMODYNAMICS; CRITICAL DIAMETER; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; IN-SITU; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; MODELING; NANO SCALE; NANO-GOLD; NATURAL ECOSYSTEM; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHASE MAPS; PRECISE CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SHAPE; SURFACE EFFECT;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; THERMODYNAMICS;

HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 67651202720     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900220k     Document Type: Article

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