Interfacial nanodroplets guided construction of hierarchical Au, Au-Pt, and Au-Pd particles as excellent catalysts

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ma, Aijing ^a   Xu, Jie ^a   Zhang, Xuehua ^b   Zhang, Bin ^c   Wang, Dayang ^a   Xu, Haolan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84900021567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04849     Document Type: Article

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