Coalescence and collisions of gold nanoparticles

Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 368-379

  Ant́unez Garćia, Joel ^a,d   Mej́ia Rosales, Sergio ^a,b   Ṕerez Tijerina, Eduardo ^a   Montejano Carrizales, Juan Mart́in ^c   Jośe Yacaḿan, Miguel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Collisions; Common neighbor analysis; Gold nanoparticles; Molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONS; COMMON NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; INITIAL TEMPERATURES; INTERACTING PARTICLES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; RELATIVE ORIENTATION; SMALL GOLD CLUSTERS;

COALESCENCE; GOLD COMPOUNDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

GOLD;

EID: 84879104564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma4020368     Document Type: Article

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