Morphology and composition controlled synthesis of flower-like silver nanostructures

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-6

  Zhou, Ning ^a,b   Li, Dongsheng ^a,b   Yang, Deren ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flower like; Hexagonal close packed; Overgrowth; SERS; Silver nanostructure

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHASE COMPOSITION; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILVER; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE SCATTERING;

FLOWER-LIKE; HEXAGONAL CLOSE PACKED; OVERGROWTH; SERS; SILVER NANOSTRUCTURES;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84903946549     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-302     Document Type: Article

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