Metastability of the atomic structures of size-selected gold nanoparticles

Nanoscale

Volumn 7, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 6498-6503

  Wells, Dawn M ^a   Rossi, Giulia ^b   Ferrando, Riccardo ^b   Palmer, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ATOMISTIC COMPUTER SIMULATION; CATALYTIC REACTIONS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MAGIC NUMBERS; METASTABILITIES; NANO-METER SCALE; TEMPLATE GROWTH;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

EID: 84926442509     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4nr05811a     Document Type: Article

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