Avoiding drying-artifacts in transmission electron microscopy: Characterizing the size and colloidal state of nanoparticles

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Michen, Benjamin ^a   Geers, Christoph ^a   Vanhecke, Dimitri ^a   Endes, Carola ^a   Rothen Rutishauser, Barbara ^a   Balog, Sandor ^a   Petri Fink, Alke ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84929223569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09793     Document Type: Article

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