Stabilization of 4H hexagonal phase in gold nanoribbons

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fan, Zhanxi ^a   Bosman, Michel ^b   Huang, Xiao ^a,c   Huang, Ding ^d   Yu, Yi ^e   Ong, Khuong P ^d   Akimov, Yuriy A ^d   Wu, Lin ^d   Li, Bing ^b   Wu, Jumiati ^a   Huang, Ying ^a   Liu, Qing ^f   Eng Png, Ching ^d   Lip Gan, Chee ^a   Yang, Peidong ^e   Zhang, Hua ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANORIBBON; NANOMATERIAL; NANORIBBON; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; GOLD; LIGAND; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PALLADIUM; PHASE TRANSITION; PLATINUM; SILVER; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84938257768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8684     Document Type: Article

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