Heterogeneous nucleation of organic crystals mediated by single-molecule templates

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 877-881

  Harano, Koji ^a   Homma, Tatsuya ^a   Niimi, Yoshiko ^b   Koshino, Masanori ^b   Suenaga, Kazu ^b   Leibler, Ludwik ^c   Nakamura, Eiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULES; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOHORNS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOHORN; CRYSTAL FORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MOLECULAR NANOCLUSTERS; ORGANIC CRYSTAL; ORGANIC MOLECULES; SUPERSATURATED SOLUTIONS;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 84866734823     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3408     Document Type: Article

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