Assembly of metals and nanoparticles into novel nanocomposite superstructures

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Xu, Jiaquan ^a   Chen, Lianyi ^a,b   Choi, Hongseok ^b   Konish, Hiromi ^a   Li, Xiaochun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

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EID: 84877776358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01730     Document Type: Article

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