Penetration of thin C 60 films by metal nanoparticles

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 335-339

  Duffe, Stefanie ^a   Grönhagen, Niklas ^a   Patryarcha, Lukas ^a   Sieben, Benedikt ^a   Yin, Chunrong ^b   Von Issendorff, Bernd ^b   Moseler, Michael ^b,c   Hövel, Heinz ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MONOLAYERS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

ATOMISTIC CALCULATIONS; ATTRACTIVE FORCE; DIFFUSIVE PROCESS; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; METALLIC SUBSTRATE; SILVER CLUSTER;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

GOLD; GRAPHITE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; FILM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77952292284     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.45     Document Type: Article

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