Networks of nanoparticles in organic-inorganic composites: Algorithmic extraction and statistical analysis

Image Analysis and Stereology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-42

  Thiedmann, Ralf ^a   Spettl, Aaron ^a   Stenzel, Ole ^a   Zeibig, Thomas ^a   Hindson, James C ^b   Saghi, Zineb ^c   Greenham, Neil C ^b   Midgley, Paul A ^c   Schmidt, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D watershed; Charge transport; Electron tomography; Hough transform; Nanoparticle system; Network morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864925483     PISSN: 15803139     EISSN: 18545165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5566/ias.v31.p27-42     Document Type: Article

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