Thermal Stability of Core-Shell Nanoparticles: A Combined in Situ Study by XPS and TEM

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 6960-6968

  Bonifacio, Cecile S ^a   Carenco, Sophie ^c,d   Wu, Cheng Hao ^e   House, Stephen D ^a   Bluhm, Hendrik ^c   Yang, Judith C ^a,b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; NICKEL; SURFACE SEGREGATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; CHEMICAL CHANGE; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; IN-SITU ANNEALING; IN-SITU TECHNIQUES; SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING; VACUUM CONDITION;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 84945580589     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01862     Document Type: Article

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