Microscopic Techniques for the Characterization of Gold Nanoparticles

Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 257-299

  Kranz, Christine ^a   Mizaikoff, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Nanoparticle characterization; Optical microscopy; Scanning probe microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908152547     PISSN: 0166526X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63285-2.00006-7     Document Type: Chapter

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