Structural isomserism in gold nanoparticles revealed by X-ray crystallography

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Tian, Shubo ^a   Li, Yi Zhi ^b   Li, Man Bo ^a   Yuan, Jinyun ^c   Yang, Jinlong ^c   Wu, Zhikun ^a   Jin, Rongchao ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GOLD; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOPARTICLE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84944908330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9667     Document Type: Article

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