In situ transmission electron microscopy observations of sublimation in silver nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 7844-7852

  Asoro, Michael A ^a   Kovar, Desiderio ^a,b   Ferreira, Paulo J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

in situ transmission electron microscopy; kinetics; nanoparticles; silver; sublimation

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL TEMPERATURE; CONVENTIONAL THEORY; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; ISOTHERMAL EXPERIMENTS; OPERATING CONDITION; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SUBLIMATION TEMPERATURE;

ENZYME KINETICS; EXPERIMENTS; IN SITU PROCESSING; ISOTHERMS; NANOPARTICLES; SUBLIMATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SILVER;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; HEATING; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEATING; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84884957143     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn402771j     Document Type: Article

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