Reversible Size Control of Silver Nanoclusters via Ligand-Exchange

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4289-4297

  Bootharaju, Megalamane Siddaramappa ^a   Burlakov, Victor M ^b   Besong, Tabot M D ^a   Joshi, Chakra P ^a   Abdulhalim, Lina G ^a   Black, David M ^c   Whetten, Robert L ^c   Goriely, Alain ^b   Bakr, Osman M ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NANOCLUSTERS; OSTWALD RIPENING; PRECIOUS METALS;

4-FLUOROTHIOPHENOL; LIGAND EXCHANGES; LIQUID-LIQUID SYSTEMS; METAL NANOCLUSTERS; MOLECULAR FORMULA; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILVER NANOCLUSTERS; VERSATILE TOOLS;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84934895625     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00650     Document Type: Article

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