Purifying colloidal nanoparticles through ultracentrifugation with implications for interfaces and materials

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 27, 2014, Pages 7936-7946

  Miller, Joseph B ^a   Harris, John M ^a   Hobbie, Erik K ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGATION; COLLOIDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULE; COLLOIDAL NANOPARTICLES; COLLOIDAL SELF-ASSEMBLY; DENSITY GRADIENTS; LIQUID-PHASE PROCESSING; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THIN FILMS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84904430819     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la404675v     Document Type: Article

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