Large-scale synthesis of palladium concave nanocubes with high-index facets for sustainable enhanced catalytic performance

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xie, Xiaobin ^a,b   Gao, Guanhui ^a   Pan, Zhengyin ^a   Wang, Tingjun ^b   Meng, Xiaoqing ^a,b   Cai, Lintao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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EID: 84923350935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08515     Document Type: Article

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