Shaped gold and silver nanoparticles

Frontiers of Materials Science in China

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-24

  Sun, Yugang ^a   An, Changhua ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

geometric symmetry; gold; internal crystalline structure; multiple twins; shaped nanoparticles; silver

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957157527     PISSN: 16737377     EISSN: 16737482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11706-011-0100-1     Document Type: Review

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