Ultrathin gold nanowires: Soft-templating versus liquid phase synthesis, a quantitative study

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4422-4430

  Loubat, Anaïs ^a,b   Lacroix, Lise Marie ^a,c   Robert, Antoine ^a   Impéror Clerc, Marianne ^d   Poteau, Romuald ^a   Maron, Laurent ^a   Arenal, Raul ^c,e   Pansu, Brigitte ^d   Viau, Guillaume ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^e FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GOLD; NANOWIRES; X RAY SCATTERING;

DIRECT REDUCTION; GROWTH MECHANISMS; LAMELLAR PHASE; LIQUID-PHASE SYNTHESIS; NANOWIRE GROWTH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REACTION YIELDS; SOFT-TEMPLATING;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84923972473     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b00242     Document Type: Article

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