Reversible attachment of platinum alloy nanoparticles to nonfunctionalized carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2438-2444

  Ritz, Beate ^a   Heller, Hauke ^a   Myalitsin, Anton ^a   Kornowski, Andreas ^a   Martin Martinez, Francisco J ^b   Melchor, Santiago ^b   Dobado, Jose A ^b   Juárez, Beatriz H ^c   Weller, Horst ^a   Klinke, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alloys; Colloidal chemistry; Composites; DFT; Nanocrystals; Nanoparticles; Nanotubes; Platinum

Indexed keywords

CARBON LATTICES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COLLOIDAL CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITES; DFT; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MODEL SYSTEM; MONODISPERSE; NANOPARTICLE SYNTHESIS; PT CLUSTERS; PT NANOPARTICLES; REVERSIBLE INTERACTIONS; SINGLE-WALLED;

CERIUM ALLOYS; CHELATION; LIGANDS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; PLATINUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77951726889     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100240c     Document Type: Article

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