Stellated Ag-Pt bimetallic nanoparticles: An effective platform for catalytic activity tuning

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Hui ^a,b   Ye, Feng ^a   Yao, Qiaofeng ^c   Cao, Hongbin ^a   Xie, Jianping ^c   Lee, Jim Yang ^c   Yang, Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84893835687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03969     Document Type: Article

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