Towards sustainability: A new, solid-state synthetic route for supported metal nanocatalysts

Current Science

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 78-84

  Sanyal, Udishnu ^a   Kalidindi, Suresh Babu ^a   Nair, Sharika ^a   Jagirdar, Balaji R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Alumina; Nanocatalysts; Noble metal ions; Silica

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860844797     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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