Limited grain growth and chemical ordering during high-temperature sintering of PtNiCo nanoparticle aggregates

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 33, 2012, Pages

  Mukundan, V ^a   Wanjala, B N ^b   Loukrakpam, R ^b   Luo, J ^b   Yin, J ^b   Zhong, C J ^b   Malis, O ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL ORDERING; COMPOSITION EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEAT TREATMENT TEMPERATURE; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SINTERING; IN-SITU; LATE STAGE; LATTICE CONTRACTION; NANOPARTICLE AGGREGATE; ORDER-DISORDER TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; PREDICTIVE TOOLS; RANDOM ALLOY; TRANSIENT GROWTH;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; COALESCENCE; GRAIN GROWTH; PLATINUM; SINTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84864625047     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/33/335705     Document Type: Article

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