Ultrathin rhodium nanosheets

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Duan, Haohong ^a   Yan, Ning ^b   Yu, Rong ^a   Chang, Chun Ran ^a   Zhou, Gang ^a   Hu, Han Shi ^a   Rong, Hongpan ^a   Niu, Zhiqiang ^a   Mao, Junjie ^a   Asakura, Hiroyuki ^c   Tanaka, Tsunehiro ^d   Dyson, Paul Joseph ^e   Li, Jun ^a   Li, Yadong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSHEET; RHODIUM;

ABSORPTION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL BONDING; DIFFRACTION; LIGAND; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMER; RHODIUM; THIN SECTION;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; HYDROFORMYLATION; HYDROGENATION; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84901754555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4093     Document Type: Article

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