Quantitative analysis of scanning tunneling microscopy images of mixed-ligand-functionalized nanoparticles

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 45, 2013, Pages 13723-13734

  Biscarini, Fabio ^a   Ong, Quy Khac ^b   Albonetti, Cristiano ^c   Liscio, Fabiola ^d   Longobardi, Maria ^e   Mali, Kunal S ^f   Ciesielski, Artur ^g   Reguera, Javier ^b   Renner, Christoph ^e   De Feyter, Steven ^f   Samorì, Paolo ^g   Stellacci, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CHEMICAL HETEROGENEITIES; FUNCTIONALIZED AU NANOPARTICLES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MULTI-SCALE FEATURES; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES (PSD); SCANNING PARAMETERS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS;

GOLD DEPOSITS; LIGANDS; NANOPARTICLES; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

GOLD;

GOLD; LIGAND; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

GOLD; LIGANDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84887593766     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la403546c     Document Type: Article

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