Spontaneous growth and chemical reduction ability of Ge nanoparticles

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Liu, Jun ^a,b   Liang, Changhao ^a   Tian, Zhenfei ^a   Zhang, Shuyuan ^b   Shao, Guosheng ^c  

^a HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84877747381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01741     Document Type: Article

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