Low Temperature Synthesis and Surface Plasmon Resonance of Colloidal Lanthanum Hexaboride (LaB6) Nanocrystals

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 6620-6624

  Mattox, Tracy M ^a   Agrawal, Ankit ^b   Milliron, Delia J ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORIDES; ESTERS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; LANTHANUM; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; NANOCRYSTALS; PLASMONS; TEMPERATURE;

ISOPHTHALIC ACID; LANTHANUM HEXABORIDES; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; LOW TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NEAR-INFRARED RADIATIONS; POLYMER MATRICES; SODIUM BORO HYDRIDES;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84944031474     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02297     Document Type: Article

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