Dendrimer-mediated hydrothermal synthesis of ultrathin gold nanowires

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Liu, Hui ^a   Cao, Xiaoming ^b   Yang, Jianmao ^a   Gong, Xue Qing ^b   Shi, Xiangyang ^a,c  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

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EID: 84887832167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03181     Document Type: Article

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