Highly monodisperse core-shell particles created by solid-state reactions

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 710-715

  Radmilovic, V ^a,b   Ophus, C ^a   Marquis, E A ^c   Rossell, M D ^a,d   Tolley, A ^a,e   Gautam, A ^a   Asta, M ^a,f   Dahmen, U ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Argentina)

^f University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TREATMENT; LITHIUM ALLOYS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CORE SHELL; CORE SHELL PARTICLES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOWER TEMPERATURES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MONO-DISPERSE; SOLID STATE PRECIPITATION; TWO-STEP HEAT TREATMENT;

SOLID STATE REACTIONS;

EID: 80052046931     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3077     Document Type: Article

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