Measuring single-nanoparticle wetting properties by freeze-fracture shadow-casting cryo-scanning electron microscopy

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Isa, Lucio ^a   Lucas, Falk ^a   Wepf, Roger ^a   Reimhult, Erik ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; ADSORPTION; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EVALUATION; FREEZE FRACTURE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADSORPTION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FREEZE FRACTURING; NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 80052413580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1441     Document Type: Article

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