Molecular simulation of Ag nanoparticle nucleation from solution: Redox-reactions direct the evolution of shape and structure

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4913-4917

  Milek, Theodor ^a   Zahn, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metal nanoparticles; molecular dynamics simulation; nucleation mechanism

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEATION; REDOX REACTIONS;

ATOMIC-SCALE MECHANISMS; COORDINATION POLYHEDRA; CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; NUCLEATION MECHANISM; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

SILVER;

EID: 84906079065     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl502503t     Document Type: Article

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