Assembly of nanoions via electrostatic interactions: Ion-like behavior of charged noble metal nanoclusters

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yao, Qiaofeng ^a   Luo, Zhentao ^a   Yuan, Xun ^a   Yu, Yue ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a   Xie, Jianping ^a   Lee, Jim Yang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84893058862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03848     Document Type: Article

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