Meissner effect in colloidal Pb nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5599-5608

  Zolotavin, Pavlo ^a   Guyot Sionnest, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

colloidal; core shell; critical field; grains; lead; magnetic susceptibility; Meissner effect; metal nanoparticles; monodisperse; oxidation; superconductivity; transition temperature

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL; CORE-SHELL; CRITICAL FIELDS; GRAINS; MEISSNER EFFECT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MONODISPERSE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

LEAD; LEAD OXIDE; MAGNETIC BUBBLES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATION; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

NANOMAGNETICS;

LEAD; LEAD OXIDE; LIGAND; METAL; METAL NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE; OXYGEN; TIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICS; TEMPERATURE;

COLLOIDS; LEAD; LIGANDS; MAGNETICS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDES; OXYGEN; PHYSICS; TEMPERATURE; TIN;

EID: 78049345623     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102009g     Document Type: Article

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