Branched au nanostructures enriched with a uniform facet: Facile synthesis and catalytic performances

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhu, Mingshan ^a   Lei, Bin ^a,b   Ren, Fangfang ^c   Chen, Penglei ^a,b   Shen, Yunfan ^a,b   Guan, Bo ^a   Du, Yukou ^c   Li, Tiesheng ^b   Liu, Minghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84902322690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05259     Document Type: Article

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