Understanding the microscopic origin of gold nanoparticle anisotropic growth from molecular dynamics simulations

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 48, 2013, Pages 14954-14961

  Meena, Santosh Kumar ^a   Sulpizi, Marialore ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC MODELING; CETYLTRIMETHYLAMMONIUM BROMIDE; CYLINDRICAL MICELLES; ELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONS; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS;

IONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICELLES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANORODS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

GOLD;

EID: 84889059929     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la403843n     Document Type: Article

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