Inoculation of silicon nanoparticles with silver atoms

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cassidy, Cathal ^a   Singh, Vidyadhar ^a   Grammatikopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Djurabekova, Flyura ^b   Nordlund, Kai ^b   Sowwan, Mukhles ^a,c  

^a OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

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EID: 84886993746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03083     Document Type: Article

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