Cluster nucleation and growth from a highly supersaturated adatom phase: Silver on magnetite

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 7531-7537

  Bliem, Roland ^a   Kosak, Rukan ^a   Perneczky, Lukas ^a   Novotny, Zbynek ^a   Gamba, Oscar ^a   Fobes, David ^b   Mao, Zhiqiang ^b   Schmid, Michael ^a   Blaha, Peter ^a   Diebold, Ulrike ^a   Parkinson, Gareth S ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adsorption template; magnetite; metal adatoms; metal oxide surface; nanoparticle growth

Indexed keywords

ADATOMS; ADSORPTION; GROWTH KINETICS; MAGNETITE; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ATOMIC-SCALE MECHANISMS; CLUSTER NUCLEATION; HOMOGENEOUS CLUSTER; METAL ADATOMS; METAL OXIDE SURFACES; NANOPARTICLE GROWTHS; SURROUNDING MATERIALS; UNUSUAL BEHAVIORS;

SILVER;

EID: 84904768101     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502895s     Document Type: Article

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