Comparison of vapor formation of water at the solid/water interface to colloidal solutions using optically excited gold nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1439-1448

  Baral, Susil ^a   Green, Andrew J ^a   Livshits, Maksim Y ^a   Govorov, Alexander O ^a   Richardson, Hugh H ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gold nanowrenches; heat generation; spinodal decomposition temperature; vapor nucleation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894609997     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405267r     Document Type: Article

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