A transmission electron microscopy study of CoFe2O4 ferrite nanoparticles in silica aerogel matrix using HREM and STEM imaging and EDX spectroscopy and EELS

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 200-209

  Falqui, Andrea ^a,b   Corrias, Anna ^a   Wang, Peng ^c   Snoeck, Etienne ^d   Mountjoy, Gavin ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d CEMES CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CoFe2O4; EDX; EELS; Ferrite; HREM; Nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952549383     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927610000061     Document Type: Article

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