One at a time: Counting single-nanoparticle/electrode collisions for accurate particle sizing by overcoming the instability of gold nanoparticles under electrolytic conditions

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 50, 2013, Pages

  Qiu, Danfeng ^a   Wang, Song ^a   Zheng, Yuanqin ^a   Deng, Zhaoxiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL STABILITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESS; ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION; ELECTRON-TRANSFER REACTIONS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; ULTRAMICROELECTRODES;

ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYTIC ANALYSIS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROELECTRODES;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 84889656510     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/50/505707     Document Type: Article

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