Merging of metal nanoparticles driven by selective wettability of silver nanostructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Grouchko, Michael ^a   Roitman, Polina ^a   Zhu, Xi ^b,c   Popov, Inna ^a   Kamyshny, Alexander ^a   Su, Haibin ^b,c   Magdassi, Shlomo ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GOLD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; SHAPE; SILVER; SINTER; WELDING; WETTABILITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SIZE; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE TENSION; WELDING; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84910022149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3994     Document Type: Article

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